Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tailor in Shanghai who earns about $70 a month, enrolled in the party apparently in much the same spirit as a Western counterpart might sign up with the Rotarians. Did Gu see a contradiction between the Communist vision and his eagerness to collect material possessions? "Communism is the ideal," he explained, sitting in a small room appointed with two TV sets, one color, the other black and white. "But my property is mine forever...
...Miami was an ideal setting for this new-wave Casablanca, Don Johnson and Philip Michael Thomas were inspired choices as the defenders of law and order. Both were picked only after the network had auditioned dozens of candidates and had twice delayed shooting the pilot. NBC had particular doubts about Johnson, 35, a journeyman actor who had appeared earlier in several unsuccessful pilots. A Missouri native, Johnson made his movie debut at age 20 in The Magic Garden of Stanley Sweetheart, and later starred in such films as A Boy and His Dog and the TV mini-series From Here...
...their "right to rest." The guarantee is contained in Article 41 of the constitution, and is printed on banners and billboards on the shoreline of the country's holiday heartland along the Russian and Georgian coasts of the Black Sea. As with many aspects of Soviet life, the utopian ideal is often more attractive than socialist reality...
Schwitters was one of the first artists to perceive that a culture writes some chapters of its memoirs in waste. But unlike other German avant-gardists of the '20s and '30s, he was not a political artist with party allegiances; he was utterly absorbed in the ideal of autonomous fine art. "Art is too precious to be misused as a tool," he declared. "I prefer to distance myself from contemporary events . . . But I am more deeply rooted in my time than the politicians." After half a century, Schwitters' constructions, which include every kind of urban detritus--the crumpled sides...
...from an ideal of Norman Rockwell hominess, Lake Wobegon reverberates with terror and finalities. Lonely Norwegians with whisky bottles lie down on their family graves in Our Prairie Home Cemetery to talk to the dead about the old country. Keillor's folk confront mainstream America with beer and trembling. They are still wagging their heads and clucking their tongues over Father Emil's summer replacement. Golfing Father Frank proclaims of his martini at a backyard party, "Dry. Mmmmm. What did you do? Just think about vermouth, for Christ's sake...