Word: lightheartedness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Written in a lighthearted, fun style, the article examines the steps an enterprising student would have to take in order to open a McDonald's franchise, from attending Hamburger University (sorry, no transfer credits accepted) to facing the Cambridge City Council. Citing the statistics from last year's Loker Commons...
Meader wasn't totally washed out of show business: today he sings and plays honky-tonk piano in small nightclubs in Maine. But it is with Meader and more recent news events in mind that we offer similar sympathy to the producers of Diana & Me, a romantic film comedy about...
A forthcoming book by Pulitzer-prizewinning journalist David K. Shipler, A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America (Knopf; $30), reaches similar conclusions. Shipler embarks on a sprawling, impressive tour along the "crucial fault line of America," crafting an absorbing theater piece of characters, from undergraduates at Princeton to...
All four of these fine films are stories about loss--of a lover, of childhood, of vitality, of a parent. Where a Hollywood movie would see some form of apocalyptic revenge as the answer to these discontents, foreign directors look for solutions grounded in daily experience. The films may be...
Another slightly offbeat characteristic of the ballet was the music. Prokofiev's three-act score of "Cinderella" fits some of the moods on-stage quite well, from lilting with the dancers' feet to thundering with the characters' emotions. But again, the music during the ballroom scene leaned more towards cruel...