Word: romanticized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In Hollywood, Indio worked as an extra, later got "heavy" parts in westerns. But a woman was his undoing. A Los Angeles husband believed that the romantic Mexican was making a fool of him and, according to Indio had him deported because he was in the U.S. illegally.
For some months now, Indio has had a new, a dream girl. In her honor, he even had the name of the street he has built on changed to "La Calzada de la Duke Olivia" (The Street of the Sweet Olivia). That he had never seen Olivia only heightened the...
Modern art, while less grandly displayed, has an active and enterprising local representation. The Institute of Modern Art, a non-profit organization, with galleries on Newbury Street, maintains no permanent collection but has frequent showings of distinguished contemporary painting. It is, at present, holding its Tenth Anniversary Retrospective Exhibition, including...
Synge was, to be sure, having fun in The Playboy. He knew peasant Ireland, he knew both the folk capacity for hero worship and the folk craving to be a hero; a sophisticated romantic himself, he understood the primitive hunger for romance. Hence The Playboy is a whole series of...
The "chocolate-cream soldier," again Shaw's realist among a group of romantic faddists, provides the tongue with which the hirsute wit is able to spit his epigrams on man, war, and the state of things. Duvey, wagging the tongue weakly on this stage, managers, from time to time, to...