Word: romanticize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Kent's garden at Claremont was refined by Lancelot Brown, a royal gardener who was known as "Capability" for his habit of looking at a site and declaring that it had capabilities. His was a romantic vision, sweeping away the last vestiges of formalism in broad pictorial vistas of...
Other gardeners took the back-to-nature bent of Kent and Brown one step further. To fulfill the romantic fantasies of their patrons, they attempted to make nature look even more "natural" by use of simulated rock outcroppings, false ruins and crumbling bridges. They disguised gatehouses as Gothic chapels and...
This is the expensive Dracula that the gang at Hammer films must have dreamed of making back in the '50s and '60s. The legend had fallen out of general favor back then, and only B-picture makers and their fans still cared about the ineffable Transylvanian count and...
One reason Dracula remains forever undead is that no amount of cinematic miscalculation can entirely loosen his grip on our imaginations. Now he has proved that even an excess of good taste cannot entirely ground him. Not permitted to parody romantic menace as he was able to do on the...
Noyce not only pins Maguire with a heavy fictional load--a complicated if uninspired romantic life, three kids, and professional rivalry--he demolishes him by adding a further dimension of newsreels. Weaving together the large-than-life dramas of actual newsreels with the mundane existence of Maguire and his fictional...