Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people whose ideal of beauty is a bronze complexion in February, tanning parlors are sprouting faster than dandelions in May. Though no precise figures are available, tanning salons are raking in an estimated $300 million a year. At one of the trendiest, Hollywood's Uvasun, such celebrities as Liza Minnelli, Rod Stewart, Mariel Hemingway and even Mr. Tan himself, George Hamilton, spend upwards of $30 an hour to maintain their sunbaked looks. Less exclusive salons charge between $3 and $15 for half an hour in the synthetic sunlight. UVA Tan, located in an upscale Atlanta suburb, expanded two months...
...centers are still groping their way toward the ideal form of care. One lesson they have learned is to avoid separating victims from their families, since fear for the life and safety of a spouse and children is usually part of the trauma. Another concern is that doctors may be regarded as the enemy. Many torturers are dressed as white-coated specialists, and some even insist that victims call them "doctor" to help legitimize their physical abuse...
...generation ago, mainstream Protestant churches began clustering their national agencies in New York City. With such institutions as the U.N. and the National Council of Churches already in place, Manhattan seemed the ideal base for forward-looking church leaders. Now, for various reasons, four major denominations are simultaneously pondering whether to pull up stakes. The underlying trouble is not New York's reputation as Sin City--except insofar as liberalism is counted a sin. Churchgoers on Main Street are increasingly concerned that the left-of-center New York bureaucracies are out of step with heartland beliefs...
Against this complexity of emotion. Radford masterfully exploits the iciness of Richard Burton's Inner Party member, O'Brien. Whether torturing or consoling, Burton never moves a facial muscle or changes an inflection. He is the ideal Party member, a living synthesis of rose dogma spouted without intellect or feeling. Burton's coldly surreal performance is as horrifying as the best Becket...
Occasionally, though, this emotional barrage can be tiresome. Radford gives us endless scenes of Winston standing on a lusciously green hillside, symbolizing his longing for an ideal world. This repetition seems out of character with the action pace of the film: more at home with the bogus psychological exploitation of Pink Floyd's The Wall than Orwell. Especially pretentious is the final shot of this sequence, where we learn that this mythical "Green Acres" lies in Rm, 101, the room of everyone's worst fear. Mixing symbols like this might work for a Bergman, but it has failed almost everybody...