Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your story "The New Ideal of Beauty" [Aug. 30] was marvelous! It echoed my own experience about the joys of a physically fit body. Thank you for presenting this aspect of today's woman in such a positive...
...unlikely that TIME would present a cover story on the latest trend in male physiques as it did with women in "The New Ideal of Beauty." By printing such an article TIME perpetuates society's ideal that a woman's appearance has a lot to do with her worth as a human being...
...renovated downtown jail. They were bent on "such degrees and modes of punishment . . . as may . . . become the means of restoring our fellow creatures to virtue and happiness." No other country was so seduced for so long by that ambitious charter. The language, ever malleable, conformed to the ideal: when a monkish salvation was expected of inmates, prisons became penitentiaries, then reformatories, correctional centers and rehabilitation facilities. Those official euphemisms are still used, but they are vestiges, drained of that first noble zeal...
...sorts. A few years later, when the movies were born, requiring motion, the images were available for all to see: the energy of the human figure, the equality of male and female movie stars, the athletic heroism of actresses like Pearl White and Annette Kellermann. From the new ideal of bodies in motion came an original 20th century figure: the energized woman, ready to express her potential in physical activity...
Film makers are already considering alternatives. Kubrick thinks "the ideal solution, extremely simple to do, would be for theatrical films once again to be shot in the original format that was the standard before CinemaScope." Director Martin Scorsese is launching a film-preservation committee that will attempt to ensure, among other things, that "if film makers make a picture in 'Scope, it gets shown that way on television." And Spielberg, who says that Manhattan looked "wonderful" masked, is going to "insist" that the next network showing of Close Encounters be masked as well. "Maybe...