Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These are among the cases brought to light in a new study released last week by the National Center for Computer Crime Data, a Los Angeles research firm. The results of the survey, the first comprehensive study of people who have been prosecuted under computer-crime laws, suggest that although...
MENDELSSOHN: Five Symphonies; Three Overtures. Claudio Abbado conducting the London Symphony Orchestra (Deutsche Grammophon; 4 LPs or CDs). Imagine the history of 19th century music if Felix Mendelssohn had been the great romantic icon instead of Beethoven. In place of egocentric storms there would be grace and lucidity; instead of...
Kennedy also advocates reducing postal subsidies and eliminating long-distance Amtrak subsidies, which he has said support the "nice romantic idea" of cross-country rail travel with few real benefits to the country.
BUT OSCAR, FOR all his comic machismo, is not a flat character. He engages the audience so successfully in his plight as the cuckolded husband that he contradicts Wertmuller's purpose. The audience ends up liking Oscar more than the two women, whose romantic efforts and speeches are completely silly...
The space race had become more than a poetic dream. It was now a military imperative. While the Soviets were pushing ahead with their missile program, American strategists had clung to the notion that manned bombers rather than rockets were the most suitable, and somehow the most romantic, way to...