Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...concern of the well off and well educated. A federal study this past summer reported that only 7% of low-income Americans exercise regularly. Nor have the workouts trimmed the obesity rate: 1 in 4 U.S. women age 35 to 64 is obese. And as much as the ideal body image has changed, there is still a lingering fear that women will begin to look like Arnold Schwarzenegger. Sports columnist Ira Berkow, for instance, wrote approvingly in the New York Times that tennis star Jennifer Capriati is "ladylike" and "nicely toned without looking muscular...
Much of the turmoil felt by parents in the '90s derives from the fact that so many are children of the '50s. Their image of an ideal family comes from TV shows like Father Knows Best; their notion of the ideal mother is the one played by Jane Wyatt: never rattled, always at home. The irony is that this "family of nostalgia," as Madeleine Stoner at the University of Southern California calls it, was largely an aberration that flourished for only a couple of decades after World...
Photographs of models, breasts taped to improve their cleavage, are plastered across the pages of every major publication in the country. These images propagate an impossible ideal of physical beauty to which women must try to measure...
...EVER ANYONE HAD AN ideal chance to campaign against a Congressional incumbent, it was Rappapport. Kerry, like all his peers up for reelection, had to stay in Washington until Congress and the White House agreed on a budget. During that time, he had been unable to campaign face-to-face against his opponent...
...sidedness of the carnage on the Temple Mount two weeks ago -- 19 Arabs dead -- bespeaks a state of affairs that brutalizes all concerned. For now the Palestinians are the principal victims. But in the long run, the casualties of Likud irredentism will include David Ben-Gurion's ideal of Israel as "a light unto the nations," perhaps even the viability and credibility of Israel's democracy, and certainly its support from the rest of the world...