Word: idealisms
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...picture of femininity Greaves and Rader offer up to us is, ironically, the very patriarchal male ideal they claim to reject--always strong, independent, needing no one. Greaves and Rader have bought the dominatnt culture's male ethic wholesale, asking for nothing more than a chance for women to become what men have always been told to be. In fact, true liberation for women and men will only be a reality when all of us realize that the whole, healthy human person is able to need and be needed without becoming either an oppressor or the forgotten and self-effeacing...
...receiving "so much love that I forget myself" perhaps for Greaves and Rader the ideal romantic relationship is one characterized by self-love and continuous concern only for oneself. This seems to me hardly the picture of a healthy relationship; on my view, love begins at the moment when the well-being of the other becomes an independent value. This is certainly a form of "forgetting" oneself, but in no way a vicious one. Only through this sort of "forgetfulness" is it possible to be conscious of others in the most profoundly empathetic way, and this deep connection is completely...
...researchers did not use total body weight to determine obesity, because it's hard to compare youngsters who are different heights. However, in general, experts consider people to be obese if they are more than 20 percent above their ideal body weight. Dietz said he could not estimate how far over ideal body weight the super-obese youngsters were...
...rest of The Ideal Copy ranges from incomprehensible to ridiculous, switching from jawdropping pretension to numbing boredom and incomprehensibility. "Cheeking Tongues" and "Ambitious" are both uninteresting melodic synth-pop, with a self-referential allusion to "12XU" that makes the reunion embarassment of the album all too glaring. This is music for icy hip drones, to be filed next to your new Cabaret Voltaire records for those autonomously cool experiences of a lifetime...
...would be ridiculous to expect The Ideal Copy to be a return to The Pink Flag or Chairs Missing. After all, Wire had begun to grow out of their punk youth even before they broke up. However, given the nature of their post accomplishments, an interesting record would suffice. With The Ideal Copy, the band has produced a void to fill a void, which will disappoint old and new fans alike. If you want to discover the truth behind Wire, the reasons behind their influence, check Pink Flag or Chairs Missing. If ultra-cool-progressive-art-dance-rock is your...