Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...balanced and thoughtful and mercifully free of the shrillness that characterizes much of the commentary on this controversial subject [MANAGED CARE 1998, July 13]. Of course, managed care is flawed, but with an aging population and increasingly sophisticated--and expensive--technology, it is becoming almost impossible to align the ideal components of a successful health-care system: access, quality and cost containment. One solution is to make employers provide the sources for coverage but let the employee shop around for the best HMO that meets his or her needs. That way responsibility for health care will rest with the individual...
Sounds good to me, too--and totally Hollywood. The latter sentiment does not always sink in here; even if they know it's just TV, somehow its distance from reality gets lost in translation. Israel by its very nature has been always looking for ideal worlds; for some, America is it. In some ways that is the worst part: this country is its own answer, with a lot to teach us too. Maybe the lessons can't fit into 30 minutes, but here races and religions have a long and increasingly bright history of cooperation rather than war. Israel...
...apartments in her swank Manhattan town house. But when 23-year-old Manny Guerin sauntered into her marble lobby in mid-June, she readily handed over the keys to a first-floor flat. Guerin, who dropped the name of a friend of a friend of Silverman's, seemed an ideal fit for her upper-class boardinghouse. Six feet tall with blue eyes and slicked-back blond hair, he was a smooth talker with a Jay Gatsby wardrobe. He tooled around town in a 1997 Lincoln Town Car and paid the first month's rent of $6,000 in cash...
...really, the movie is essentially cheerful. Everyone has fun. Bank robbing is a barrel of laughs, working for the Feds is better than taking out a personal ad, and, quick, inconvenient jail terms aside, only the really bad guys get punished. It's not fair for something this ideal, this utopian, this completely far-fetched to be so darn good. The illogical plot is utterly captivating from beginning to end, and the performances are superb. Out of Sight is really, well, out of sight...
...point Reilly wishes that he and his girlfriend could be a happy couple, "the kind you see in an Eddie Bauer catalogue, healthy and well-scrubbed nondysfunctional Eddie Bauer couples do." If only Reilly realized how close he and his little clique were to the so-called Eddie Bauer ideal...