Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...First, let’s address the good news. The “Final Cut” is in a limited theatrical run, in anticipation of a Christmastime DVD release, and the big screen offers the ideal environment for both devotees and newbies to experience the film...
House: Dunster Concentration: History and Literature Hometown: San Diego, Calif. Ideal Date: Salem Witch Museum...nothing helps a relationship along more than learning about a community in terror. Then take a detour through Marblehead to see where they actually filmed that ’90s tour de force, “Hocus Pocus.” It doesn’t have to be exactly that, but it would definitely be witch-themed. Best way for a girl to get your attention: Be emotionally unavailable or dating somebody else. Works every time. Where to find you on a Saturday night...
...elfin winter wonderland is followed by clips of elves working in Santa’s factory, followed by scenes of elves shopping in the town square—all set to the tune of sleigh bell-heavy music. This time around, though, our first view of the ideal Santa-land is bathetic—the anti-Emerald City revealed, if you will. As the Santa theme has provided the basis for so many well known Hollywood films, one would think that the focus of the director and writers of “Fred Claus” would be to distinguish...
...tops the cupcake. One bite of the simple-yet-refined chocolate and vanilla cupcakes will quickly send the eater back to the days of classroom birthday parties.But Kickass Cupcakes doesn’t limit its clientele to children, trendy tweesters—or, for that matter, humans. At an ideal eye level for their target demographic, baked goods for pets sit on the lowest shelf, betraying no sign of their intended consumers besides subtle labels reading “Woof!” and “Meow!”One of us—we won?...
...which Brotherhood Chair Sangu Delle ’10 described not only as “a symbolic gesture of unity and brotherhood,” but something that works to “[dispel] the stereotype that black men are not professional.” A noble ideal, indeed. But it begs the question: What’s really the issue here? Are people not provided enough positive images of black men? Or are they using their socially constructed heuristics and stereotypes to seek out information that confirms what they already believe? Given the damage inflicted by the Lowell...