Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sundance film festival this year--drop her in insular worlds where her beauty and quiet sexuality generate more rattle than hum. Yet Tyler also projects a work-in-progress quality, an appropriately teenage openness. Mangold says he knew as soon as he met Tyler that she would make an ideal Callie, the kindly waitress who intoxicates an overweight loner (Pruitt Taylor Vince) with whom she works in a grim, paneled pizzeria. "I needed someone to fill several bills," he explains. "She had to be devastatingly beautiful but she had to contradict our assumptions about someone who looks like that...
...thought the replacement for the frontier would be: state universities. They could take on the mystical duties for democracy that free land had once performed--with, of course, an academic twist. "The test tube and the microscope are needed, rather than the ax and rifle, in this new ideal of conquest," he wrote...
Despite its illustrious history, the modern pentathlon faces an uncertain future. Unlike new Olympic sports such as beach volleyball and the triathlon (which will debut in four years), the modern pentathlon has little popular and corporate appeal, especially in the U.S. "This sport is the celebration of an ideal," says top U.S. pentathlete Michael Gostigian, 33. "But we have to package it better." One small step was compressing the competition from four days into one. Hoping to gain a higher profile, the U.S. team named actor Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV) to the administrative post of team leader. A few years...
...hospital bed on Wednesday. The desperate escape attempt raised questions about why the elderly witness would try to run after he had been so cooperative with authorities, reports TIME Rome correspondent Toula Vlahou. Though Hass is being investigated for his involvement in the massacre, he seemed to be an ideal prosecution witness, she reports. He talked with reporters about Priebke's role in the killings, and endured five hours of questioning by prosecutors on Thursday night. "Somewhere between the time Hass spoke to prosecutors and the time he went to bed, something must have spooked him," says Vlahou...
Such a portrait of the Harvard community may be more of an ideal than a reality, for Harvard undoubtedly means many different things to many of its students. And while Harvard's essence may lie in the expression of its ideals, for some, and perhaps for too many, the Harvard degree is an instrument to a paycheck...