Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...possession as well: a heritage conditioned by distinctive language, customs and geography. This haze of individuality is burned off by the heat of competition; swimmers, runners, jumpers, gymnasts, all of them, doing what they do best, can come to seem alike. That homogeneity defines, in large measure, the Olympic ideal. But the flame feeds on man's diversities as well as similarities. In this portfolio of photographs, TIME portrays some of the men and women who will be competing in Los Angeles. To see them in the places where they have grown is to recognize both a universal quest...
...still possible to offend anyone except the ghost of Avery Brundage and a few no-show Iron Curtain sports commissars by announcing the obvious, that the defunct Olympic ideal of amateurism has always been humbug? The prohibition against pros was not high-minded in its origin, it was high-hat: a snobbish social exclusion of riding instructors, fencing masters and the like who sweated for their keep and were considered high-level servants. It was intended to ensure that those who participated in this festival of running and jumping were the sons and daughters of gentlefolk. Other Olympic ideals...
Once a reporter asked the evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson to describe the man she envisioned as the perfect husband. Her ideal, she said, would be over six feet tall. He would be a handsome man, a preacher, and he would be able to play the trombone...
...each becomes an accuser and judge to the young man. In previous roles, (Glass Menagerie, Spring Awakening) Kirsten Harris has always managed to be a very believable mother, and as Madame Renaud she is no less maternal but adds a subtle cruelty to her role. This edge is almost ideal for the guilt and resentment she must force upon Gaston. Jennifer Burton, who portrays Gaston's sister-in-law lover is almost sinister, taunting her brother in-law, forcing him to face her, refusing rejection. The malice with which she plays the woman-scorned makes one genuinely pity Gaston Alexander...
...against both personal cruelty and international aggression, the song seems intended as a rejoinder to those who think Michael makes mostly good-time make-out music. As such, it stands in marked contrast to the rest of Victory, whose final cut, Body (written and performed by Marlon), is the ideal anthem for horny aerobicizers, with its chorus of "I want your body, I love your body, I need your body" repeated like a liturgy for ligaments...