Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...which presumably provides the quarterback with a wide range of options on each play--is in perhaps the best hands it has ever been in. Junior Mike Giardi runs the supremely complicated offense as if it were a match box car, while Robb Hirsch and Kendrick Joyce are ideal backs for the system...
Late at night, Coach Joe Restic must fantasize about his ideal football team...
...open up, tentatively, some heretofore private aspects of royal life to TV cameras. Perhaps she assumed this powerful new medium would enhance her inherited institution and reinforce, with pictures, Victoria's concept of the monarchy as the nation's moral ideal...
...queen of Manhattan's glitterati. For a decade they were the wax-doll couple atop a cake at the wedding of popular art and social responsibility. He made, and she starred in, movies that played like fantasies of their partnership. Offscreen, their liaison produced the portrait of an ideal postmodern family. Unmarried, they lived apart yet loved together. While nurturing a rainbow coalition of privileged American kids and children salvaged from the Third World, Mom and Dad lived the city's most public private lives. Tout New York was their movie set, Madison Square Garden their all-star playground...
...however, is not the facts but our attitudes toward them. Once upon a time, Americans knew what to do with people who seemed different: obliterate the differences. Today increasing numbers of nominal Americans refuse to see America as anything more than a collection of ZIP codes. Their ideal is Yugoslavia, without machine guns. Multiculturalism, in the words of historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., "belittles unum and glorifies pluribus...