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The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying…
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The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for…
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Society needs both parents and nonparents, both the work party and the home party. While raising children is the most important work…
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The history of the Internet is not, as some people have tried to make it, a libertarian just-so story. It is a…
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Glamour is all about transcending this world and getting to an idealized, perfect place.
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Glamour is translucent — not transparent, not opaque. It invites us into the world but it doesn’t give us a completely clear…
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Aesthetics has become too important to be left to the aesthetes. To succeed, hard-nosed engineers, real estate developers, and MBAs must take…
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Glamour doesn’t just happen, people don’t wake up in the morning glamorous.
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From a tale one expects a bit of wildness, of exaggeration and dramatic effect. The tale has no inherent concern with decorum,…
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The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for…
— Virginia Postrel
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The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to…
— Erving Goffman
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The Rising was mainly a piece of streat theatre designed by poets for dramatic effect. For better or worse, it became part…
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In the first place, it must be remembered that our point of view in examining the construction of a play will not…
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My grandmother had the most dramatic effect on my life because she set me in one direction, and I had to go…
— James Earl Jones
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It has always seemed to me that so long as you produce your dramatic effect, accuracy of detail matters little. I have…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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I don’t know. After the downstairs, I assumed something creepier and dirtier.†I shrugged. “You didn’t have electricity down there.†“It’s for…
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