Word: romanticized
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I cannot copy nature in a servile way; I am forced to interpret nature and submit it to the spirit of the picture," wrote the French painter Henri Matisse in 1908, looking back on a decade in which he and his friends had revolutionized image making. Many of the results...
After Sana saw ground zero with her own eyes, her romantic view of bin Laden began to harden. "At first I couldn't believe that he was behind these gruesome attacks," she says. But the video released in December, which shows him gloating over the destruction, turned Sana against him...
Sex consumes Waylaid. Lin's narrator gets his notions of it from cast-off porn, his coarse friend Vincent and the flesh trade that surrounds him. His attitude is, not surprisingly, neither romantic nor realistic; he divides the women he meets into "hardcore" or "centerfolds." When he loses his virginity...
Coldplay's second album, A Rush of Blood to the Head, finds the band plowing ahead with the bed-wetter thing and improving. Lead singer Chris Martin has a lovely high voice, and he has all the solipsistic tendencies of a latter-day Morrissey. He writes about breakups and sadness...
The trick in a movie aiming at romantic refinement is to avoid being either pushy or inert. There Possession fails, certainly in the modern half of the story. Actors preen overmuch; Paltrow again imitates Englishness by sucking in her suave cheeks; Eckhart (a LaBute regular) works too hard at being...