Word: romanticized
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In six pages of spare description at the outset of the somewhat old-fashioned romantic adventure Charlotte Gray (Random House; 399 pages; $24.95), novelist Sebastian Faulks makes a promise that somewhat old-fashioned readers expect and understand. The brief opening scene takes a Spitfire pilot over Nazi-occupied France on...
Eventually, since this is a romantic imagining, Charlotte makes her way back to Scotland. And the phone rings. A voice says, "Charlotte, you may not remember me... " So the story ends as it should, though with both lovers so battered by the war and their time apart that only the...
This was nobody's idea of a romantic Valentine's Day. While millions of couples prepared for a quiet night out, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and her top aides bundled onto an Air Force jet bound for France, where peace talks between Yugoslav Serbs and Albanians were stalemated. From...
Thomas is the romantic one; on the group's records, she often sings the dreamier passages. Since the release of CrazySexyCool, Thomas had been on a quest to find her biological father--and she was finally reunited with him in 1996 on, of all places, The Sally Jessy Raphael Show...
The second piece, "Maelstrom", choreographed by Mark Morris, was an abrupt change from the previous piece. Performed to a Beethoven Trio, the piece was quite classical compared to the previous one. With romantic costumes and a delicately clouded sky as a backdrop, the piece was classically Mark Morris, with its...