Word: idealizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dramatics, however, is somewhat crippling to her narrative, which so carefully withdraws from any hint of comedy or irony that it inches closer and closer to forsaking emotion altogether. Currier is clearly and artist of proficiency and discipline, but the solemn mood she so carefully constructs does not seem ideal for the project at hand. Passion is a messy, extravagant phenomenon, and a hard one to characterize from behind a poker face...
...with a view of the magnificent cliffs of the Palisades and the olive green waters of the Hudson. He lived with Caroline Costello, who had been deeply in love with him since their undergraduate years at Yale, and continued to love him in spite of his illness. They were ideal tenants. They were quiet neighbors. They were engaged to be married. She was talking to a rabbi about converting to Judaism, her lover's faith. And she had become pregnant. Then, last Wednesday, Costello was stabbed more than 10 times with a chef's knife...
...literary archaeologist, the sinking of the Central America was ideal. Nearly 450 people drowned, but 149 men, women and children were saved, and their accounts of the horror began spreading to the continent's newspapers as soon as rescue ships reached port. Captain Herndon, who went down with his ship, was acclaimed for his heroism, and a memorial was built at Annapolis, Md. As the New York Times wrote afterward, "No story so clear and so appalling has ever before been brought to the firesides of the land...
There was no money, no delivery, but what's more, no sense of culpability. I guess I had naively assumed that companies, especially businesses such as airlines, which are so highly competitive, aim to please their customers. I realized, however, that this consumer ideal does not necessarily extend beyond my own American experience. My assumptions of consumer/retail conduct are culturally grounded. The image of clean, bright-eyed, smiling salespeople looking up to the next person in line with a cheery, "Can I help you?" is as blatantly American as the white bread peanut butter and jelly sandwiches which I sometimes...
...summer in the city, it's pretty much ideal...