Word: ideale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...imbibe spirits, smoke, and the girl across the hall. JC--as the rich, useless preppie from St. Paul's--attracts disdain from his roommates, who see him "taken care of" by his wealthy father; Tim, on the other hand, is the prim, self-sufficient perfection of the Greek ideal, envied by Stan for his diligence and direction...
...archaic permanence; many coats and scumblings of paint have given her flesh the porous, mat quality of fresco plaster. Balthus' art is about stabilizing the eye, and giving measure, proportion and distance to what it extracts from the world. The rooms in which his figures pose are all ideal architecture: their orthogonal emptiness is the stage for a subtle play of forms in which the way a towel's folds are echoed by the edge of a bowl and the curved iron brace of a washstand acquires an importance verging on the moral. Balthus' world is whole...
...Christie stints, it is in the discussion of her writing. A few details are vouchsafed: the ideal detective story is 50,000 words long; the short story is not a good form for mysteries; neither is much love interest, nor an overcomplicated midsection of the plot. Her ideas began as a couple of random images: "Girl and not really sister-August." Contrary to popular belief, writing was never easy for the author of 68 books. She fretted for weeks before getting into a novel and required constant expressions of reassurance from Sir Max. "I got very tired, and I also...
...around the less-than-ideal court at the IAB, and we can overcome the recruiting restrictions and freshman rule," he says. "But we've got to show there is support for the sport. When we open on November 30, we all go on the line: players, coaches, and the rest of the University...
...strike wreaks some degree of havoc, and the dock stoppage is no exception. In Chicago, some of the display props for Carson Pirie Scott's two-week promotion of Italian wares never arrived. Gabriel Industries cannot get battery-powered motors for its Erector Sets; Ideal Toy, based in New York City, has laid off some 200 of its 2,500 workers...