What about a true American romance?

"Linda and I are in the midst of a great American romance," Mr. Wildhorn said.

Last year, he published a book on "transgression in the development of American romance," and the first sentence quotes Michel Foucault.

Both artists seem driven by an American gothic romance: the night is a kind of baleful underworld.

The American romance with sports champions may have started in the 1920's.

The American romance with Pakistan was over, but the marriage was just about to begin.

Despite the subtitle, this is less an American romance than an American merger, and a telling, absorbing one.

At least for the moment, the American romance with home ownership appears to have cooled.

They're the markers of a uniquely American romance.

Another American romance goes awry.