Word: idealize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year-ending sweep of visiting Dartmouth Saturday would have been ideal, but reality for the Harvard softball team was a split...
...young by a decade, the youngsters who play their rambunctious brood (Lisa Bonet, Malcolm- Jamal Warner, Tempestt Bledsoe and Keshia Knight-Pulliam) are charming. So is Cosby, most of the time. The veteran stand-up comic, commercial pitchman and star of three former TV series has found an ideal format for his gently satiric humor. In the face of life's little annoyances, Cosby's demeanor is a sardonic slow burn; his response, exasperated hyperbole. "I had a rough day yesterday," he complains. "Every child born on the face of this earth, I delivered...
...male relationships, his incidental portrayal of women is suspicious. Cyd (Kathryn Harold), Blue's five-year live-in who abandons him for another painter; Candy (the late Carole Wayne), the voluptuous "submissive" S & M model for Blue's Fiorucci-style erotic paintings, and Liliane (Carole Laure), Eli's "ideal" woman, who works in a chic Los Angeles art gallery, are shown with such a distrustful distance that we never get far past their appearances. These characters are flat, like blank canvasses on which Blue and Eli project their own dreams and anxieties...
Backfire begins with a discussion of American culture, centering on two of its prominent features. From the Pilgrims on. America has been a missionary nation, one whose ideology has been to show the world the way to the ideal society, a society defined by America. Along with missionary ideology. Baritz describes an American confidence based on technology. Our belief, fortified by technique, makes us strong, but our machines make us invincible. "As Hiroshima demonstrated conclusively, we could think of ourselves not only as morally superior, but as the most powerful nation in history." Americans did not conceive that...
...short, Teeters walks the tightrope between the egalitarian ideal and the reality of status. Merrymount society allows him to play the game, though it does not spell out the regulations. Rule 1 is that friendliness and even sexual intimacy do not automatically confer acceptance. Rule 2 is that the home team gets to suspend Rule 1 whenever it wants to flaunt its self- assurance. Cynthia Pickles, local ice princess and founder of Overview ("a journal of opinion for all sides"), coolly sleeps with Teeters, accepts his nuptial propositions but marries smooth, rich Jerry Chirouble. Pickles' underclass equivalent is Toby Snapper...