Word: romanticizes
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The presence of prostitution in St. Petersburg was a familiar concept to me when I first arrived here to study Russian for the summer. The St. Petersburg prostitutes grace the pages of many Russian writers’ greatest works. In the 19th century, Nikolai Gogol wrote about an enticingly innocent...
Dawn is then banished until the final chapter, and the story is taken up by a second narrator, Tom Stewart, a British lad who makes the sea trip to Hong Kong in 1934 at age 21. It's here that the narrative slows. On the trip east he meets Sister...
Lanchester could be forgiven for building his epic around an untenable love triangle (Tom, Sister Maria, God). Thwarted passion has always been ready fuel for romantic works, but it requires that someone actually show passion. We know how Tom feels about the changing moods of the South China Sea, and...
The last task of the voyage--publishing their account--fell to Lewis. He had kept the raw notes and journals he and Clark had painstakingly carried to the Pacific and back with the goal of editing them into final form. But beset by administrative battles in his new job as...
Davis went to work for RTL, owned by German media giant Bertelsmann, which wanted to produce the sorts of TV movies popular in the U.S. Davis delivered Germany's first made-for-TV movie in 1993, and the format has proved such a commercial success that more than 200 made...