Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While planners say Boston is an ideal site, some say the city couldn't handle the influx of people...
...need education, then counseling and then birth control," Bard said. "In an ideal world, abstinence would be great. But those who don't [abstain]...should be rewarded for being responsible enough to seek birth control...
...characters are heavily, heavily drawn, so much so that the film has the feeling of a farce. Shayne declares passionately that he's an artist, that he won't change to pander to the commercial--his goal is "transform men's souls"--and promptly gives away every ideal he's histrionically declared as fast as anyone will take them. Diane Wiest is hilarious as the ridiculous Sinclair, speaking and moving as if she were an alcoholic Lady Macbeth who'd be king herself rather than any dopey husband. Late to the first rehearsal, she intones, with terrible drama: "My pedicurist...
Farndon's oils evoke the same, mildly pleasant feelings, soothing and persuading viewers to luxuriate in his images of the ideal moment. Rarely does his subject venture beyond a ship yard or a wharf, a sun-drenched path or a perfectly motionless pond. Thick paint and broad strokes complete his portrayal of utter screnity through the heaviness and fixity of the surface texture of his canvases. Figures are rendered almost motionless, defined only by a few cursory passes of his brush, while those figures standing on a path or in a park as if on a stroll end up pasted...
...list of possible causes -- but the most obvious clues don't seem to stand up to scrutiny. Initially, rainy, windy weather along an approach to Chicago was thought to be a possibility, but National Transportation Safety Board Chairman Jim Hall said today that while conditions were far from ideal, "airplanes operate every day in this type of weather." Another possible cause, mechanical failure, is also questionable. The European-manufactured plane was almost brand new. It was registered with federal officials in March and, as of September, only one problem with the plane had been reported -- a broken floor light...