Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although I'm still conflicted about the U.N. and its ideal relation to U.S. foreign policy, the conference did teach me about my lack of knowledge and perspective. I'll have to learn that the Ivory Tower does not always accurately represent the views of the entire country...
...question was raised as to whether linear structure itself mattered. A much sought-after consultant, Douglas Rushkoff, advised television executives that the programming of the future would consist of "predeconstructed" shows like Beavis and Butt-head, in which the principals are intentionally distanced from their own programs. The ideal would be to remove oneself from experience while engaging in experience and to make experience deliberately fleeting. The structure of the sitcom Seinfeld continued to depend on dozens of fast-moving, bite-size scenes that simulate the effect of surfing while remaining within a single coherent situation, thus pre-empting...
...what it failed to mention, namely that white males hold 95% of management positions; that affirmative action already existing in the form of preferences benefiting whites, veterans and women is not being questioned; and that those who want differences treated with equality are pursuing what should be the American ideal. Krauthammer's most glaring omission, however, is his failure to propose any alternative to eliminating racial discrimination in the workplace. Declaring that such discrimination is illegal naively assumes that the institutionalized and dangerously covert racist attitudes that made affirmative action necessary in the first place can be legislated away...
...sounds just about perfect, and it is. In the world of day care, the kinds of programs run at the Carter Center can be considered the ideal. They provide good food, a safe setting, plenty of mental and physical stimulus, and lots of attention and affection. Equally significant, they serve the children of low-income families, kids who may be at risk for poor development. Troy Harris used to be on welfare and now works at the Carter Center, where her two children are in day-care programs. "If I didn't work here, I would still want my children...
...ENGLISH PATIENT For so many European wanderlusters who found an Eden in the Sahara, the desert was a woman--dazzling, enveloping, with a vastness that held all their dreams. In such a place, just before World War II, the Hungarian aristocrat Count Laszlo de Almasy finds his ideal desert woman and follows her to hell. He then lives, just barely, to tell the tale to a ministering angel (Juliette Binoche) who can give him what he needs: not absolution but understanding. The lovers are Ralph Fiennes--all coiled sexiness, threat shrouded in hauteur--and Kristin Scott Thomas...