Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...controlled theatrical gesture -- and on to his late work, Titian never ceased to develop. Perhaps to a modern eye, late Titian is the most moving of all, for it goes beyond the pictorial rhetoric that made his success. It is broken, impressionistic and no longer interested in the classical ideal. From its smoky melancholy come Lear-like outcries of pessimism, whose fullest expression is reached in The Flaying of Marsyas, perhaps the last of his paintings...
...government must be elected, and the defeated parties must agree to form a loyal opposition. In the 36-year history of modern Cambodia, no government has ever been chosen in a fair, contested election. Nor is there a democratic ideal to which Cambodians might cling. Instead, the great national myth is Angkor Wat and the all-powerful god-kings who ruled a millennium ago. Does this mean Cambodia can never have fair elections? No. Does it mean they are unlikely anytime soon...
From his office at 5 Western Ave., just on the edge of Central Square proper, Police Chief Anthony G. Paolillo has an ideal vantage point from which to survey the area's problems. And despite the three patrol routes which he says already go through the square, he doesn't see a cure coming out of the police department...
...Skinner's most famous books describe his ideal society: Walden Two (1948), a novel about a utopian community based on behaviorist principles, and Beyond Freedom and Dignity (1971), which holds that in an ideal world traditional ideas about freedom and dignity need no longer apply...
Stout and Crolius are happily married, though they spend only a few minutes together on a standard workday. Both agree it is not an ideal arrangement. But this is the most compatible meshing of schedules in their eight-year marriage -- and it beats the 18 months they spent on opposite coasts when Stout was pursuing television work in Los Angeles. "This is as good as it gets," says Crolius. "We're both working -- and we're both living in the same city...