Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will probably remember is her hair, whipping seductively around her in Gilda, cascading over her shoulders on the cover of LIFE and in thousands of World War II pinup posters. If Jean Harlow was Hollywood's love goddess in the '30s and Marilyn Monroe in the '50s, the '40s ideal was Rita Hayworth, who died at 68 last week in Manhattan of complications from Alzheimer's disease...
Solomon, today's director, has ideal qualifications. A China scholar, he joined Kissinger's staff in 1971 and later headed the political-science department at the Rand Corp. Each morning he meets with Shultz for 45 minutes to discuss long-range policies, and he goes along on major diplomatic missions. Most important of all, he says, he has time to think. Given the daily evidence of the dangers of ill-conceived initiatives concocted in secret, this legacy of a more thoughtful era is something to contemplate...
...most loving of fathers and husbands have failed at governing. By the standards of the ideal husband, men like Thomas Jefferson and Franklin Roosevelt might have been disqualified. What's really at issue with Hart? Not whether he's the perfect husband. It's whether or not the man is telling the ; truth. Voters need to be able to trust candidates and Presidents, not take comfort in their successful marriages. In the past, candidates didn't feel so obliged to drag wives and husbands and kids onto the platform. Now it's become obligatory. And sometimes it leads to great...
...mattress is made of foam, storage is cramped, and the front door is a hinged panel. But there is no charge for rent or utilities, and if the location is less than ideal -- beneath an overpass at the edge of a San Francisco parking lot -- at least the two snug, waterproof plywood structures are nestled among fragrant eucalyptus trees. Just 8 ft. long and 4 ft. wide, these so-called City Sleepers were designed by Architect Donald MacDonald to shelter the homeless men he spotted sleeping on the ground outside his new office. Said MacDonald: "I'm just trying...
...world unless a woman translated it for him." It is generally a small world that the couples and the uncoupled inhabit in these stories. Most are set in the New England exurbs whose historical and residential enchantments are mainstays of Updike's magic kit. An exception is The Ideal Village, about a party of gringo fact finders in the jungle settlement of a sect of Central American social visionaries. The story is to the others in the book what The Coup is to Updike's other novels, a public variation on the folly of private utopias. Concludes the narrator...