Word: romanticizes
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In the very entertaining romantic-musical-porno-comedy-drama Shortbus, a character who has attempted suicide is dispatched to Our Lady of Adequate Grace Hospital.
While, over the years, my view of the Spanish Civil War has grown more nuanced, my view of Barça has grown ever more romantic. During the era of the Franco dictatorship, Barça was the lone place where the Catalans could shout in their own language and denounce the...
1st arrondisement. The Coen brothers crunch their black comedy into a black hole of cross-cultural misunderstandings. Buscemi, whose Coen-nections cover five features, from Miller's Crossing to The Big Lebowski, plays a tourist reading a guidebook in the Paris Metro. "Never make eye contact," the book advises. But...
Gentlemen: I must confess serious doubts about the efficacy—or even the integrity—of the “classic†exam period editorial, “Beating the System,†you reprinted recently. I almost suspect this so-called “Donald...
Shame on this revival. The 1954 Richard Adler and Jerry Ross musical isn't even a paid-up member of the Broadway pantheon. Yet the story (about labor problems and romantic entanglements at a pajama factory) is so effortlessly engaging; its songs so consistently fresh, tuneful and organic to the...