Word: romanticizes
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As almost everyone in Coppola's family is a director--from her father to her husband Spike Jonze, who directed the indie hits Being John Malkovich and Adaptation, to her brother Roman Coppola, who directed CQ--it would have been weird if she had become an accountant or a cardiologist...
But there's nothing romantic about the brutal rule the Maoists have instituted in the areas they control. Their use of torture and summary execution, their maiming of people with an education, and their targeting of any alternative authority?blowing up bridges, irrigation channels, post offices and schools?have earned...
Sure, Angelina Jolie can parade around in a skin-tight catsuit to play tomb-raiding Lara Croft, but what about 30 years from now? Would she just as happily do a nude scene then, wrinkles and all, with only two iced buns protecting her modesty? To pull that off takes...
Researchers who have examined cross-sex friendship say that any initial sexual tension tends to fade over time or become irrelevant. "If a friendship is going to become romantic, studies show it usually does so in the beginning," says Heidi Reeder, a professor of communication at Idaho's Boise State...
Some pairs manage to navigate the transition from platonic to romantic and back again. Tracy Livingston, 30, a teacher from Ridgefield, Conn., dated Keith Lawrence on and off in junior high and high school. "By college we realized we were better friends than lovers," she says. These days Livingston, who...