Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first disclose the rather biased source for this review: The Pixies were my musical gods for so many years. I built a shrine to them composed of a constant loop of all their albums. I wept, fasted, prayed--they were the new rock. They embodied this thing, this ideal, this "alternative." Then they broke up, shortly after tagging along with U2 on their consumerific Zoo TV tour (any augur could have seen where such a pairing would lead). So I heard no more from my little forest nymphs. Black Francis changed his name again and again...
...back the element of carefree fun and musical freedom not "to mean" or "to change" that is so lacking in today's Billboard charts (expect for Aqua's "Barbie Girl"). Duran Duran exists because we have always needed Duran Duran to exist, to take us away from the omnipresent ideal of music as a form of self-expression. Sometimes it's good to hear something that means nothing...
...Like all tenants, he doesn't want to move," she said. "You can't blame him. [North Beach] is an ideal place to live...
Vernon Jarret, a retired Chicago Sun Times columnist added that although Clinton may be less than an ideal figure, he's more sympathetic to the issues the black community finds important than many other leaders...
...oscillate between two moral poles. The left brain says, "Nothing human is foreign to me," a dictum that floats in like elegant driftwood from the second century B.C., when the Roman playwright Terence said it. The line describes the ideal state of today's movie and television audience: a morally promiscuous and passive receptivity, a tolerant consumer's connoisseurship of vice and weirdness...