Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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A large part of the film's quirky charm is due to Walcutt. He plays Day with an unconscious honesty that makes the character instantly likeable and believeable. Playing Day as something of an innocent, Walcutt's childlike spontaneity endears him to the audience, overriding the distance automatically created by...
Practicality, not chic, is a royal consideration. "You'd be amazed what one has to worry about," she says. "You've got to put your arm out to get some flowers, so you can't have something too revealing, and you can't have hems too short because when you...
The reason readers won't get a feel for the real Texas is that Michener picked an epic story to tell the state's tale. The characters and the romantic story line hide more about Texas than they reveal. They show the legend and myth, a surprising amount of which...
Anita Brookner's smartly written novels sell briskly in England, where the author lectures on neoclassicism and the Romantic movement at London's Courtauld Institute. She is definitely not a romantic. Providence, Look at Me and Hotel du Lac (1984 winner of Britain's Booker Prize) take dim views of...
And yet Europeans love cowboy books and cowboy movies. Whatever their official distaste for the cowboy mind-set, they often harbor a sneaking admiration of the individualism and freedom that the idea of the cowboy implies, of the romantic recklessness that they also consciously censure.