Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...face of every convention, the love story soars. Jordan calls his movie "a love story without sex, beyond sex. You think that love is the same thing as sex -- and it's not, is it?" Because they never do have sex, the lovers can hold on to their ideal images of each other as savior and beautiful woman. "It's my little joke about a marriage," Jordan says. "The ideal marriage...
...role of Dil with the proper actor, Jordan says, "I needed a man with a very particular kind of femininity." Davidson, who was spotted by a casting assistant at a wrap party for Derek Jarman's gay-toned Edward II, had a sad, elfin, ambiguous, direct, unique screen charisma ideal for Dil. "The only thing nonactors have to work with is themselves," says the director. "What the movie camera sees is a person's spirit. You can't hide that...
Rudenstine said supporting the ideal of free speech often means accepting unpopular viewpoints...
...utilizing their science knowledge to improve the nation's health. Yet many fail to realize how much they can accomplish through personal contact with patients. Dictating quotas smacks of paternalism, and creating an incentive-based market only diminishes the hope those students have for the healing and caring ideal put forth by past generations of physicians...
President Clinton tried to use his State of the Union Address to inculcate the patriotic ideal of "contribution" into the hearts and minds of American citizens. But our "contribution" (read: more and more taxes) will amount to unnecessary and painful sacrifice unless Congress is forced to "contribute" something just as Crucial: fiscal discipline and responsibility...