Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to achieve ideal thinness is not merely frustrating, new research suggests it is also unhealthy. Dieters who swing through cycles of weight loss and gain may actually be cutting their lives short, according to a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine. In a study of 3,130 men and women, ages 30 to 62, participating in the landmark Framingham Heart Study, researchers found that so-called yo-yo dieters ran a 70% higher risk of dying from heart disease than did people whose weight stayed fairly steady, even if they were overweight...
Brownell believes yo-yo dieting may eventually prove most dangerous, not for people who are vastly overweight, but for people who are continuously battling those last five or 10 excess pounds. "These people are fighting their own biology," he says. "Our notion of the ideal body is much leaner than it needs to be for health reasons...
...furthest along in the federal appeals process. Last year a federal district court struck down provisions requiring a 24-hour waiting period, notification of the husband, and a state- sanctioned lecture from a doctor about the pros and cons of abortion. But the Pennsylvania law may not be the ideal test case for Roe. Reason: it focuses on procedural stumbling blocks to abortion rather than decreeing an outright ban, and could thus allow the court to skirt the constitutional issues...
...handsome cast performs these epiphanies in grand, graceful comic style; the actors know this is not so much real life as ideal life. And Robert, whose reputation previously rested on slight farces such as The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, presents the vignettes with an assured briskness the viewer barely has time to appreciate. They are like Marcel and his brother: eager and bright, soliciting our attention, trying to crowd each other out. But gently, no elbows. Again like Marcel, these films are at once playful and spectacularly well behaved...
Mistake two: the ideal panel for literary prizes is a group of harmless but well-read drudges who are happy with modest honorariums and the free coffee and doughnuts served at meetings. The Turner people made the blunder of assuming that prestigious judges would confer glitter on the new awards. They assembled, at $10,000 a pop, a blue-ribbon panel including not only Styron, Matthiessen and Bradbury but Nadine Gordimer and Carlos Fuentes as well...