Word: romanticizing
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There is a dancing, dazzling siren seductress at the heart of this book and of all books like it, and it is not Sally (or Sybil or Sylvia) but madness itself. When Sally turns manic, it's as if some interstellar alien god is speaking through her, and you hang...
Let me tell you a story about Lily, an eighth grade student at a strict, non-denominational private school who got in trouble and got sent home early because she was simply on the wrong path, young lady. Tired and frustrated, Lily returned to her room determined to stick it...
Even in his own country, Ayckbourn has never received the critical respect accorded contemporaries like Tom Stoppard and David Hare. They write "important" plays about political issues or world-famous physicists or 19th century Russian philosophers. Ayckbourn's realm is smaller and more familiar - the domestic and romantic predicaments of...
Although they entertained my romantic notions of picking up archery by London 2012 or the luge in time for Sochi 2014, the overwhelming consensus of this recurring conversation was that—at the age of 21—that ship had officially sailed. It may not be too late...
The author doesn't hide her admiration for the Governor, whom she refers to throughout by her first name. In fact, she tells Palin's story in terms usually reserved for the DVD boxes of romantic comedies: "It is a political Cinderella tale in which a small-town mayor and...