Word: romanticized
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"There aren't many films about Irish Americans, but that's not enough to recommend this frail fable of three Long Island siblings (writer-director-co-star Edward Burns, Jack Mulcahy, Mike McGlone) and their romantic angst," saysCorliss. "They talk, soulfully. They fret, winsomely. They annoy, a lot. The acting...
In fact, visually this film might not be so bad. I recommend the theaters show it without the sound. Minus the overdone romantic music swelling in the background and the recycled dialogue, the romance might not have seemed so painfully staged.
One socially redeeming lesson we can derive from the Susan Smith case, then, is that girls need the possibility of some great adventures other than romantic love. Yes, love is a joy and a shining moment of transcendence in our life. But it is not the only one. If I...
The Romantic Generation (Harvard University Press; 723 pages; $39.95) is Rosen's demonstration of the value and pleasures of musicology. In the narrowest sense, the author explores a relatively brief period of music history--from the death of Beethoven (1827) to the death of Chopin (1849). Rosen applies not only...
Never rigid, Rosen's ideas grow from his intimacy with the music. The book comes with a CD (a wonderful idea) on which Rosen plays 16 selections that he analyzes in the book. Rosen has concurrently released a separate recording, also called The Romantic Generation (Music Masters Classics), that contains...