Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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The only reporter in Front Page who shows a residual trace of decency is Hildy Johnson (Richard Thomas), who wants to give the game up for a safe, lucrative job in advertising and marriage to a wholesome, dependable woman. To do so, however, he must abandon the newsman's one...
...Beaubourg: Francoise Cachin, a brilliant, Sorbonne-educated art historian whose specialty is Manet. The first issue she had to settle was the scope of the museum. What did 19th century mean? There was no way the Louvre was going to surrender its masterpieces of early 19th century classicism and romanticism. So Orsay's program must begin after the peak of the romantic movement. Cachin, Laclotte and the new museum's staff wanted to start in 1863 -- the emblematic year that saw the first Salon des Refuses, Manet's epochal Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe and the formal rupture...
One of the assumptions of Golden Days is that testosterone is the most unstable element in the universe. When men, the sole possessors of penises and nuclear missiles, go wrong, the result is usually bad. See's holocaust is foreshadowed by a catalog of vague fears. The cause of the...
The forward-looking sectors of the American art audience were waiting for pictures like these, sensuous and sharp, which spoke to the intuitions of transcendentalism in the up-to-the-minute terms of the machine age. For all their shimmer, they had a just-the-facts quality that proposed the...
Though Lunge, Grip is Harvard's romantic version of No Exit, there is in fact an escape from the Mather basement. So, grip the first half of this play, then lunge for the door. Half a good, original play is better than nothing.