Word: romanticized
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Shakespeare didn't call his play Shylock: The Jew of Venice. The title character is Antonio, who rashly wagered his flesh as collateral for a loan. Shylock was simply Antonio's banker, whose humiliation--by lovely, quick-witted Portia--is irrelevant to the romantic intriguing that consumes most of the...
The part of me that wants assurance that I will not meet a similar fate rationalizes that the times are different. My friends and I are spending our twenties with each other as family. Though some of us have boyfriends and girlfriends, we spend a significant amount of our youth...
The idea struck in 1977 when, as a graduate student at M.I.T., Hoffman was introduced to chaos theory. A chaotic system like weather appears to behave randomly but is actually governed by rules. It is also influenced by seemingly trivial tweaks to the system--hence the old romantic notion that...
In my new book, Cain?s Field: Faith, Fratricide, and Fear in the Middle East (Simon and Schuster), I write that ?from Lawrence of Arabia to Bill Clinton, Westerners applied their apparently logical perceptions of the conflict to a potential resolution, colored by romantic notions of the noble desert Bedouin...
That may be a cue to the viewer that this is not a romantic triangle but a story of the complex love between parents and their kids. Deb could be the dread force of nature that helps unite the other people in the pained, needy, nearly always forgiving world of...