Who didn't cry -- who didn t enjoy crying -- at that wordless opening montage, a cartoon romance made as big as life?
Their unlikely romance made her, for six months at least, a tabloid staple by proxy, a situation she described as 'definitely not nice'.
As the BBC's Chris Cook wrote: "Romance makes it hard to run good public services in areas where the private sector offers few job opportunities".
The implied idealism of Scott and Adrianna's burgeoning romance makes a painful if overly obvious contrast to the wretched adult relationships.
John Ruskin's abortive romance makes for a darker shade of period drama, artfully shot, with a prestige cast, but in no way sentimental about its very Victorian scandal.
As long as the mind retains a store of happy memories, distance can intensify a romance, make its recollections more vivid, prompt the heart to yearn.
Its sensual convergence of Cubist lines, Titianesque nudity, and sheer bohemian romance makes Nu couche a prime piece of painted flesh by any standards.
Within this mind-set, Charles Aznavour and Édith Piaf represent the sum total of French popular music; star-crossed Gallic romance makes the world go around; the bourgeoisie remains complacently in charge; and Paris is the center of the universe.
"Modern Romance" makes a distinction between "companionate" and "passionate" love, and in many ways Ansari is a companionate entertainer: he offers solace rather than something more dynamic or oppositional to his audience.
And yet, improbable as it may seem, a tense tale of wartime intrigue and romance makes for riveting watching at the Atlantic Theater Company, where Moira Buffini's "Gabriel" opened Thursday night in a taut, superlatively acted production directed by David Esbjornson.
