Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were a true humanities building, you would have art history and philosophy and music, but that would be an ideal world," Damrosch said. "If that was really what they had in mind, they would have put the departments we had the most contact with in there," such as the history department, Damrosch says...
...Female athletes are more at risk because the so-called ideal athlete is extremely thin," Wilson said...
...adulation. On her second CD, Whip-Smart, Phair hews to her previous theme -- but where Guyville was an angry critique of relationships, Whip-Smart reveals a woman who appears much happier. On Supernova, for example, she sings with almost embarrassing exuberance about a lover who has proved to be ideal: "I have looked all over the place,/ But you have got my favorite face...
...twice a week, and I've carried this figure in my head for more than 30 years, as a benchmark, like the .300 batting average or the idea of three square meals a day. There have been times when any sex at all was a beautiful faraway ideal, like reincarnation, and there have been other periods when twice a day or hourly seemed pretty normal. But twice weekly was the norm, I thought, so it's a surprise to learn that according to the new survey, once a week is more like it. Only about a third of adults...
...Kohl a fourth term, but the narrow parliamentary majority threatens Kohl's ability to govern. The Christian Democrats come-from-behind victory actually saved the Chancellor's political career. "This campaign revolved around Kohl," says TIME Bonn bureau chief Bruce van Voorst. "The Christian Democrats offered not a new ideal, but Kohl as a symbol of stability and reliability. There were posters that had nothing on them but Kohl." The conservative architect of German reunification succeeded in edging out the rival Social Democrats by just 10 seats, down from a comfortable 134-seat margin in the last round of voting...