Word: jadedness
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The year 2000 - when Mexico's Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) was toppled after 71 consecutive and authoritarian years in power - is considered the moment democracy arrived south of the border. But the process started 15 years before, after a horrendous 1985 earthquake that left 10,000 dead in Mexico City...
Like her fellow chroniclers of the Amish, Lewis proves that it isn't necessary to lace every scene with lust to keep the reader's attention. Grace's suitor in The Secret tenderly proposes to her without ever having kissed her. "'Tis mighty gut," he says with deep affection. "Will...
Just before the latest Cirque du Soleil traveling show begins in its striped tent on Randall's Island, New York City, an announcer warns that the production contains flashing lights, "which may cause difficulty for people with photosynthesis epilepsy." Very considerate, these French Canadians. But given that this audience has...
An infidelity here, a dash of marijuana there—the suburban Eden post-apple is a common enough story. Film, especially, is a repeat offender of this fixation on suburbia’s trouble in paradise; “Revolutionary Road,” “The Stepford...
The story of Susan Boyle - like that of Paul Potts before her - is, except to the most jaded and curmudgeonly among us, completely irresistible. Fished, seemingly, from the bottom of the troll pond by Britain's Got Talent, these two humble, working-class, physically ill-favored souls were suddenly found...