Word: ideality
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...indeterminate gender underscores theuncertainty inherent in 'net relationships. Whenhaving 'netsex, the information one "partner"knows about the other is highly selective andoften false. After all, what can they give you?The Michelangelo Virus? There is a certainexcitement for many in this ability to create acharacter, to be an ideal self or someonecompletely different. If you want to be asix-foot platinum blonde transsexual dominatrixone day and a vertically challenged Cyclops fromNew Zealand the next, all it takes is the click ofthe keys. No one will ever know. By the sametoken, though, that conversation partner whodescribes himself as one hunk...
...perhaps what makes us most uncomfortable with the search is Marshall herself. Having the police department under the auspices of the University's top lawyer has resulted in decisions being made to protect the University's legal interests--decisions that do not always coincide with the ideal way to manage a police department...
Perhaps it is this hint of the ideal that accounts for Vanya's continuing attraction. Even if nothing much happens onstage, everything is happening on that other, imagined stage-a world of fulfilled passions, where scholarship leads to wisdom, industry to affluence, sexual desire to spiritual communion. Chekhov's impulse is transcendent. At his best he evokes an ethereal theater where angels perform in front of angels...
...pros believe that even right-wing Republicans may come to realize that Wilson's moderateness could be marketed not as a handicap but as a winning card that could attract Democratic voters in the general election. If Republicans do decide that Wilson is their man, he would have an ideal location for his coronation. The Republican Convention is scheduled for July 1996 in San Diego, the true capital of Pete Wilson country...
COLIN POWELL IS THE IDEAL candidate. Nearly 90% of voters familiar with him across the political spectrum have a favorable impression of him. Crowds of mostly white military retirees give him standing ovations. So do classrooms of inner-city kids. CEOs of major companies call his old friends asking how to contribute to his presidential race, while ordinary citizens are collecting signatures in shopping malls and organizing a letter-writing campaign to convince him that the nation is calling him to duty once more. He radiates confidence, integrity, reassurance. Yet he is more than upstanding; he is charismatic, what former...