Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ideal world, one in which protesters would put aside their Harvard--esque righteous indignation for one day, Powell would be an excellent choice for Harvard's Commencement speaker. However, in a world as imperfect as our own. Powell's visit will inevitably incite tension and large-scale protests...
Some will blame MTV for raising these youths on images of sex and violence. Some will blame less than ideal home lives. Some will blame monetary troubles, some unresponsive teachers. Some will blame you, some will blame me, and many will blame themselves. But as this false chorus of collective culpability reaches a crescendo, the real guilty party can still he heard if you listen carefully enough. He is the boy laughing while another lies choking on his own blood...
...physiques to some wondrous heavy lifting. And the Tchelnokovs (Nikolai, his wife Galina Karableva and their impossibly lithe son Anton, 7) describe patterns of living sculpture that are less physical than mystical. In the harmonious flow of their fearless feats, these performers might be parents and siblings from another, ideal world, where beauty is based on majestic trust...
...like Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life, is voice-activated. It's not so much the tale as the teller, the tone he takes about himself, what he makes out of past experience, that seizes and holds our attention. It follows that an autobiography is not the ideal foundation for a movie; the two forms are antithetical. It also follows that This Boy's Life, though seriously meant and conscientiously made, doesn't quite work...
...Slow Dancing with the Moon is an ideal reminder of Parton's status as a premier singer-songwriter. Her plaints, like I Will Always Love You (a recent chart tyrant for Whitney Houston), expand the reach of country music to both coasts and most places in between. But Parton is her own best interpreter. Country guitar picker Chet Atkins gives her this impish praise: "She has more talent than I've got in my little finger...