Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...they are together. Bunny spends much of her time in Paris. When Paul inexplicably refused to buy her an apartment there, she bought it herself. When he goes to Paris, he stays at a hotel. There are other hints that the Mellon marriage falls short of the middle-class ideal of togetherness. "If I were describing him in a nutshell," she says, "I would say that he is very sensitive−and totally insensitive. He says things sometimes that are really extraordinarily touching. But you could not describe him as a highly sensitive, emotional man. He stays very remote...
Newmark added, "This is a step back leading to the old English ideal of spoon feeding students...
...matter of physique, nature did not deal Gelsey an ideal hand, but she trumped every disadvantage. Her facial features seem to have been intended for a slightly larger head. So? What big blue eyes she has and what an alluring Gioconda half-smile, all the better to be seen clearly from the third balcony. And those long arms and legs: Should they not be attached to a bigger body? In motion, Gelsey's torso seems to lose what little substance it has. Mass is translated into a continuum of grace...
...There is a distinction between the ideal of ethnicity and the reality. When you have things like Philadelphia's Rizzo announcing himself as a national leader of white ethnics, ethnic chauvinism is no longer a harmless political fringe, but a dangerous national ideology," Patterson said...
Play It Again, Sam. So what do you do if you're short and ugly? We wouldn't know. But Woody Allen has had to grapple with this problem for several years now, and apparently he has come up with a workable--if not ideal--solution: turn your shortcomings into assets. To date, Allen has made half a dozen films in which short guys come out on top. By far the best of these is "Play It Again, Sam," the tale of a romantically successful Bogart fan. In Bogart, Allen has found the perfect role model for all the short...