Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During preseason workouts, six of the varsity harriers agreed to give up sweets, alcohol and carbonated beverages for the entire season in order to slim down to their ideal racing weights...
...sentiment. Because the narrative hurtles immediately into action, it takes quite a while to involve the audience with the characters. Then, just when it has developed the Phantom as a pathetic blend of noble genius and physical freak, it turns him into an almost random murderer. In an ideal entertainment, there must be someone to root for. But as Alice noted of a wonderland no more demented or enchanted than the Phantom's opera house, they are all very unpleasant people here...
...tuxes as blithely as they turned cuffs; the rage became the rule. The first off-the-peg tux appeared around World War I, and tails were dusted off mostly for coronations. Movie stars such as Gary Cooper, William Powell, Cary Grant and Fred Astaire burnished the national formal-fashion ideal. Cooper looked as cool in a dinner jacket as he did in jeans...
PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BAUHAUS movement are now on display at the Busch-Reisinger Museum. The exhibit reveals the energy of the German Bauhaus group which attempted to define 20th century art by combining the aesthetic ideal with the technical and the practical...
...colleagues are also assessing the economic potential of such tropical plants as "killer" potatoes, which trap insects on their sticky surface hairs; the Amazonian buriti palm, rich in vitamins A and C; the pupunha palm, whose proportions of carbohydrates, proteins, oil, minerals and vitamins make it an ideal staple; and Fevillea, a vine with seeds rich in an oil that may one day be used as an industrial lubricant...