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Word: idealizes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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Obsession, when it takes hold, is not a fragrance but a lethal gas. It envelops and consumes us; it is all the air we breathe. It should make for an ideal film subject. But moviemakers rarely know what to do with obsession. They make it trivial, cartoonish. A superfiend itches to blow up the planet -- big hairy deal. An id-monster like Freddy Krueger dices and slices kids as they sleep. Zzzzzz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: A Heavenly Trip Toward Hell | 11/21/1994 | See Source »

...opinions of Peninsula's G. Brent McGuire '95 were the most controversial. In his opening remarks, McGuire lashed out at the "liberal" ideal of equality, which he termed "pernicious and rotten to the core...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Student Leaders Debate Book | 11/17/1994 | See Source »

...certainly not the ideal way to go into The Game...

Author: By Matt Howttt, | Title: Football Blanked by Pennsylvania, 33-0 | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...hope this reaches you at whatever resort exists in heaven (or the other place) for former Presidents of the U.S. Not knowing how closely you watch events in the world you left behind, I want to bring you up to date on the consequences of an ideal you so energetically championed: national self- determination. Today it is militantly invoked in many places, from the former Yugoslavia to the former Soviet republics, including North Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. (You don't know where those new states are? Well, very few people do.) Rival claims to the same land have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Memorandum to Woodrow Wilson | 11/14/1994 | See Source »

...ideal world, we would be at a public school, and the campus press would be able to use the law to force its way into meetings...

Author: By Raj Shourie, | Title: Open Your Meetings To Reporters | 11/7/1994 | See Source »

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