Word: romanticized
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In a sense, there is a greater feeling of purpose about the work you are doing; the romantic conception of scholars living the life of the mind comes true for a moment. My phone all but stopped ringing, my in-box achieved some stasis, and I didn't have to...
1. "[T]he smartest, edgiest, most human and handsomely acted romantic comedy in elephant years...It has two births, two deaths, five sexual affairs and no special effects."
In this year of unrequited love and loyalty betrayed, the most painful story of broken hearts doesn't involve Bill and Monica or Bill and Hillary or even Monica and Linda. It's American conservatives and the American people. And the saddest romantic outcry of the year wasn't Monica...
Writer-director John Boorman says he thinks of Martin Cahill, protagonist of The General, as a throwback to those Celtic chieftains who haunt Ireland's misty past--cunning brutes whom legend often turns into romantic rogues.
Many vocal connoisseurs regard Ben Heppner, 42, as the real tenor of his generation. A beefy, shambling Canadian whom conductor James Levine rightly calls a "phenomenon," Heppner is the first singer in years who has the vocal heft needed for the massive Wagnerian roles that were once owned by Lauritz...