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Word: romanticized (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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Maybe Hodgman is right. Maybe Obama won't fall victim to the Urkel effect. Maybe, just as Seth Rogen has replaced Harrison Ford as a romantic-movie lead, our comic-book-loving, viral-video-sharing culture is replacing the blow-dried Mitt Romneys with the Jew-froed Al Frankens. Of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Obama Overcome the Urkel Effect? | 10/31/2008 | See Source »

Urban fantasy, paranormal romance, romantic fantasy. Call it what you will, but the immensely popular genre most recently featured in HBO's True Blood owes everything to Laurell K. Hamilton, who launched her Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter character 15 years ago. Hamilton has since started another series, starring faerie queen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vampire Novelist Laurell K. Hamilton | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

The uncompromising modernity of the new writing is also uplifting. Speak to any of these authors, and there is a sense of defiance in choosing to write about the present - an insistence that the stories of how Indians live now are just as worthy of being told as the more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Techie Lit: India's New Breed of Fiction | 10/30/2008 | See Source »

After turning 14 I decided that I was entirely too grown-up to watch any movie that included coming-of-age themes, magical wonderlands, or a message about the true value of love. Persuaded by superstars such as Alicia Keys, Jennifer Hudson, and Queen Latifah, however, I finally decided to...

Author: By Keara D. Cormier-hill, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: The Secret Life of Bees | 10/24/2008 | See Source »

Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” has inspired an abundance of adaptations, from Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet to Leonard Bernstein’s “West Side Story.” Shakespeare himself adapted the story from the earlier tale of...

Author: By Rachel A. Burns | Title: All Ends Well in ‘Tragedee’ | 10/23/2008 | See Source »

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