Word: romanticizing
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Does this language and this sentiment exist in college? Of course it does, but it’s not new, and it’s not everything. But Wolfe seems to think it is new, or at least, that the language has changed so dramatically as to signal a serious...
A male boulevardier is usually there just to enjoy the view. But on occasion, on impulse, with no internal debate on the matter, we'll do a 180 and follow some passing knock-out. It's not predatory, just an expression of the atavistic male urge to be a hunter...
Jazz pianist Bill Charlap approaches a song the way a lover approaches his beloved. He wants to know its origins, its shape, its moods. He wants to view it from every angle--melody, harmony, lyrics, verse. He even wants to hear about its romantic history--what other improvisers have done...
And as if the conversion of romantic poetry to electric signals weren’t avant-garde enough—a disco ball suspended from the ceiling then projected this encoded verse onto the gallery walls, inundating viewers in a dizzying whirlpool of light and color.
The images included everything from walls covered in graffiti to romantic waterscapes of the Charles. One shot of a van was explained with the simple yet potent, “The man with this van is quite simply the man.” Another showed the Brattle movie theatre and...