Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I look in the dining hall and see cinnamon-apple crispitos, it means happy times ahead. My TFs like my papers. My mother sends cookies in the mail. My rooming group gets its ideal suite. (These, and more, have all actually happened...
...danger that American Jewry will be led down the same path of patriotism-by-proxy that has prolonged the Irish Republican Army's terror. A radical faction wages an unpopular struggle by appeal to its expatriate community--a community whose understanding is limited to the rarefied world of the ideal, oblivious to "front line" suffering...
Arquette, in great shape these days, radiates the strain of a desperate coquette. Anderson, with all the charisma of the guys you knew back in shop class, is an ideal stud-schlemiel. But this is Lithgow's spotlight. His shambling gait and open shirt give him the look of Disney's Brer Bear. But Mills is a slyer oaf, muttering obscenities and worn wisdom, capable of evil . and love; Lithgow's dilapidated face tells you both are curses. He knows that noir is a chase with death at the end, and he makes it a hell of a ride...
There's a lot more to come from John Woo, but this is not the ideal preview one might have hoped...
...indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or even understand: we are too small and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence to any question even tangentially nudging on the Middle Ages. And now, you see, having dazzled me, won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is too keep me awake. When I sleep I give...