Word: romanticized
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But no one would work this hard to hash out such an enthrallingly elaborate belief system--the human imagination is depthless, the anthropologists point out--if more profound needs weren't being met as well. At its core, the Myth is a secular way to give the universe meaning, and...
When he decided to escape the muggy Memphis heat with a quick plunge into the Wolf River, singer Jeff Buckley had every reason to feel buoyed by good fortune. At 30 he was signed to Columbia Records--the home of Bob Dylan and Miles Davis--and had just settled into...
All right, it's summer. You want a foreign-language film that doesn't play like a final exam in Comparative Cultures. So try Shall We Dance?, which Miramax Films has cannily positioned as successor to its easygoing humanist hits Like Water for Chocolate and Il Postino. Masayuki Suo's...
Latham tells his "true story of true love" in deliberate, prairie-flat language, strewing the landscape here and there with verbal posies and perhaps a few too many quotations from 17th century romantic poetry. Still, the style is right for what is, after all, the sentimental chronicle of two endearing...
The typical action star--your Arnold, your Sly--is a slab. Cinematic granite: a sullen face, eyes from beyond the grave and the subtlety of a steamroller. Then there's Cage. Onscreen he's quicksilver, always moving and creepily intense, more like the wily loon that Stallone would blow away...