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Because the West found it convenient, indeed probably essential, to make common cause with the Soviet tyranny to defeat the Nazi one, even at the height of the Cold War some vestigial romantic delusions about Mother Russia persisted.

IMPRESSION VS. REALITY. The various antic subplots involving Lacuna Inc.

This does misfire occasionally, such as on "Vers Toi," but for the most part dreamy songs like "I Just Wanna Make You" and "Once Around Town" are keepers, with their breathy intonations making them the perfect romantic accompaniment to an evening of seduction.

But with Andrew Manze cutting a swath through the Baroque and Classical repertories, and players such as Christian Tetzlaff treading fearlessly into the modern, atonal thickets of Schoenberg and Ligeti, we'd best limit Vengerov to being merely the king of the Russian Romantic school.

His suavely turned phrases had a heroic cast to them, lessening the natural, dancing spirit of these little movements but transforming them into persuasively Romantic narratives.

Huet’s world lolls, indolent, inside a faded polaroid with sunshine flashing through interstices and sprinkler lawns, a stillshot where 80’s moon-fetishism, magic mirrors, chimebell Casio, Kate Bush and quasi-‘Blue Bell Knolls’ all collide in a starry nebula of romanticism and fragile girlishness.

With more than a year's worth of pent-up anticipation thanks to the club's wrangling over license and permit issues, clubgoers finally got to check out this high-tech dance club and lounge from the people behind adjacent hip hang Y. Not surprisingly, last week's first arrivals had their patience tested a bit more when they got there.

The Solid Waste Authority recently recognized Abacoa Partnership for Community at Florida Atlantic University with a plaque on March 23 naming the Greenwalk program as the Anita Lankler Adopt-a-Spot of the Year 2003.

Recently, while doing research on the troubled Fredericton gallery that Beaverbrook founded (in 1959) and that still bears his name, I came across an anecdote about Beaverbrook's generosity to the scribes of Atlantic Canada.

It is going to be one heck of an anticlimax if Worcester do a Rotherham and drop straight back down but I rather suspect that Duckworth and his lieutenants will have thought of that.

Appropriately billed as “a romantic comedy, with zombies", the consistently inspired Shaun of the Dead breaks this mould — into gory pieces.

In just two years time, The Toronto Daily Star would be festooned with garish headlines about "frantic" teenagers whipped into a riotous frenzy by Little Richard at a Top Record Stars of 1956 "rhythmic orgy" at Maple Leaf Gardens.

In order to understand Vietnam, and to learn lessons from it, we must rid ourselves of the romantic notions prevalent after 1975, when the communist victory seemed miraculous and noble and the American mission seemed corrupt.

The classic recording that Sony chose to reissue on SACD was instead the very romantic one by Isaac Stern, with Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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