Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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IF YOU WALKED in on John Gordon-Sinclair of Gregory's Girl in a romantic comedy in the now familiar Glasgow setting, would you think "Gregory's Girl II"? The latest Bill Forsyth film?
Gordon-Sinclair plays Alan, a studio photographer with romantic difficulties. It's been a few years since Gregory's Girl, so Alan is to young-adult comic pathos what Gregory was to the adolescent version. Alan sets out to leave lover Mary (Irina Brook) after debating the 50 ways, only...
Still, if poetry and politics are bedfellows in certain ways, the bed is rarely comfortable. Poetry has none of the active power that politics has. It can protest or commemorate a war but cannot cause one. Assessing the poet's responsibility in the world, Allen Tate derided the romantic notion...
And if they return to the spot a year from now, they might find themselves in the romantic surroundings of a vegetable garden, according to City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci and Cambridge activist Deirdre Morris.
The Met production is conservative, which is not surprising. Allegorical reinterpretation, the rage in Europe, strikes no sympathetic chords at Lincoln Center, where an earnest conventionality prevails. Schenk and Schneider- Siemssen staged the Met's highly regarded 1977 Tannhauser, a glowing, romantic evocation of the Thuringian countryside, with a sharp...