Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called the location of the restaurant ideal. "Harvard Square has a mixture of people that we can depend on for business," Pabla said...
Coupon's ability to work fast was ideal for the harried schedule of President-elect Bill Clinton. The photo session immediately followed the interview with Clinton by managing editor Henry Muller, deputy M.E. John F. Stacks, chief political correspondent Michael Kramer and White House correspondent Margaret Carlson. After shooting six rolls of film in seven minutes, William put down his camera and told Clinton, "I think I got it." Unaccustomed to such a fast-working photographer, the stunned President-elect responded, "You are the first photographer I didn't stop first...
...coffee. In villages, farmers gather after a day's harvest for a shot of pastis and a dice game. In cities, shopgirls pause for orange juice and a croque monsieur, the grilled ham-and-cheese sandwich that is one of the mainstays of cafe fare. "Parisian zincs are the ideal theater of the comedy of man," observes the weekly L'Express...
Fruit flies are the mules, if you will, of genetic research; they breed fast, and their simple chromosomes are ideal for the study of heredity. Now a group of U.S. biologists has found a way to freeze living fly embryos. Not only does that guarantee a stable fly supply, but it is a landmark achievement in another sense: fruit flies are the most complex organisms ever to be lab frozen and revived. The technique could lead, albeit far down the road, to the freezing of mammals -- even humans, maybe...
...revisionism has come to children's literature. In this collection the ugly duckling grows up to be an ugly duck, Cinderella's sisters win, and the frog prince croaks.The comedy depends on a knowledge of the original , stories; given that, the pictures are obvious and excessive. In other words, ideal kid stuff...