Word: ideality
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...impressions. True, Hedwig's stage patter has its share of double entendres ("I do love a warm hand on my entrance"), but the literate script is also a poignant meditation on loneliness, gender confusion and the Platonic notion that sex is the effort to reconnect two halves of one ideal being. All of this is embellished by 10 muscular, melodic rock songs by Stephen Trask, which combine hard-driving punk with Beatles-style lyricism for the most exciting hard-rock score written for the theater since, oh, maybe ever...
...serve in a kind of workers' army in which all get the same pay. In lieu of financial incentives there is patriotism and "passion for humanity." People marry each other only for the finest moral and physical qualities; the race has been "purified." A minor detail symbolizes the collectivist ideal: when it rains, canopies are lowered over the streets, replacing everyone's individual umbrella...
Imagine you're listening to a male country-western singer describing his ideal woman. Take a guess as to what...
...most liberated of them all may very well be a man whose given name is Floyd Jr. but went as "Bubba" as a boy. Collin Raye's ideal woman not only demands to be the one driving on their first date, she "quoted William Faulkner and Martin Luther King"--no intellectual slouch she. However, Raye's most feminist hit to date is "I Think About You," which won awards for raising awareness of spousal abuse and address all kinds of oppression women face, from safety issues to questions of pornography. (When was the last time a male singer in another...
...great number of his people are sweating, fighting and dying to establish a secure home for all of the Jewish people--a home in which the Jew does not yet, but may some day, desire or need to live. A safe home ideology may not be the most lofty ideal for Jewish statehood, but in this post-Holocaust age, it is a political necessity nonetheless. Evidence of this in our generation can be seen in an article by Crimson editor Adam J. Levitin, "The El-Al Exodus Scenario," published on the web zine Muskeljuden (www.westegg.com/muskeljuden). Levitin proposes half-comically...