Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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The image of Cambodian culture that haunts the West is vague and almost ineffably romantic: the royal city of Angkor, slowly abandoned under threat of Thai occupation after 1431 but still the chief symbol of Cambodian identity, one of the largest archaeological sites in the world, with its colonnades and...
Why did Symphony 1997 take off so quickly? One reason is that it is both frankly romantic and immediately accessible--Beethoven's Ninth boldly recast for postmoderns, right down to the climactic anthem in which the children's choir sings ecstatically of the prospect of world peace. The work's...
What say, fans of romantic comedy? Can you accept the slightly silly place Picture Perfect is coming from? Can you predict the blissful place it's heading? Of course you can. What may surprise you--given the desperate energies being applied to this genre these days--is the film's...
"Picture Perfect" shows where "My Best Friend's Wedding" might have ended up. It also underlines, a little depressingly, just how badly Hollywood needs some new ingredients in its tried-and-true formula for romantic comedies.
"Picture Perfect," unlike "My Best Friend's Wedding," plays by the rules of conventional romantic comedy--giving it a generic, by-the-numbers feel. Kate's soul-searching and self-discovery are formulaic, and Aniston's too lightweight an actor for anything more. Kate superficially faces the same sort of...