Word: ideality
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...salvation is, in Barsky's ironic words, a "tanned, trim, taut, toned body" that will be an objet d'art, a masterpiece to be "treasured, meticulously inspected and painstakingly maintained in peak condition." Unfortunately for most Americans, who tend to be groaners and sweaters, that remains an unattainable ideal...
Glassner also believes Americans "must find other, more realistic options" to this "tyranny of perfection." He does, however, see some hope in the notion that people are beginning to discover that what they once thought of as the ideal body isn't quite so ideal after all. Instead, "it stands not only for beauty and health," he says, "but also for false hopes and prejudices." Moreover, he notes, "that knowledge may be disheartening at first, but it also frees us -- to exercise and eat in ways that match our own needs rather than the dictates of the latest...
...being perceived as an affront to the blacks and progressives who backed Jesse Jackson and by sullying the PAC-free sheen of the squeaky-clean Dukakis. And though he is greatly respected in the corridors of the Capitol, Bentsen does not top the list when people daydream about the ideal President of the United States...
FOOTNOTE: *The Hohmann ellipse is an ideal trajectory requiring a minimum of energy for a journey between any two planets, named after the German engineer who calculated...
...finding life or its remnants deeper in the Martian soil. There life forms might have access to water and be protected from the fierce solar ultraviolet radiation that rains down on the surface, virtually unobstructed by the Martian atmosphere. Sedimentary rocks in the ancient riverbeds would be an ideal place to hunt for fossils of organisms that may have lived when Mars was more benign, with a thicker atmosphere, warmer climate and running water on its surface...