Word: romanticized
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WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS (1865-1939) He was temperamentally a Romantic, eager for seclusion: "I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree." But public life would not let him. Whatever his subject--his native Ireland's struggles for independence, the growing chaos across Europe--he turned current events into...
At the end of City Lights, when the heroine at last sees the man who has delivered her from blindness, we watch her romantic dreams die. "You?" she asks, incredulous. "Yes," the Tramp nods, his face, caught in extreme close-up, a map of pride, shame and devotion. It's...
America at the century's dawn was a billboard of extravagant promise. And two new art forms, movies and the popular song, formed the flying wedge of American hegemony, sending a message of optimism and expansion all over the world. The movie narrative with its cozy moral, the 32-bar...
It was Liu's roommate who arranged the couple's first outing--a black-tie opening of his play. Liu claims his roommate had no romantic intentions in mind at the time.
"The waitress was from a former Soviet republic. She smoked Marlboros and had a huge tattoo," he recalls. "That was our first romantic date."