Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A few originals have taken the opposite position. Alexander Woollcott, twitted unmercifully by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart as The Man Who Came to Dinner, played the title role onstage. Gerard Fairlie, who inspired Sapper's stolid Bulldog Drummond, went on to write seven further novels about himself after...
The twin obstacles in the path of contemporary music are the past and the recent past. In the violin repertoire, the beloved romantic concertos have maintained such an iron grip on audience affections that even indisputable 20th century masterworks have been neglected in favor of the millionth performance of the...
The course of true love never did run smooth, but the affairs of confessed Soviet Agent Svetlana Ogorodnikova have proved particularly bumpy. Over the past two weeks, Ogorodnikova has disrupted the Los Angeles espionage trial of her former paramour, ex-FBI Agent Richard Miller, with sobbing assertions of his and...
Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn are America's foremost symbols of boyhood optimism, of romantic dreaming at the age when all life's options lie open. Bernard Sabath's The Boys in Autumn imagines those Mark Twain characters as disillusioned middle-aged men. The youths who fantasized becoming outlaws have...
Laura Gonzalez imbues love-interest Roxanne with so much feminine radiance that while she's on stage the audience forgets that nothing really interesting is going on. If anything, Gonzalez makes her character too wonderful. Roxanne is a woman who fails to recognize her cousin's handwriting for several years...