Word: idealization
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...fine passion. His actors look stranded; with the exception of the tremulous, bewitching De Medeiros, they indulge in huff and bluster. As for the sex that got Henry & June in trouble, it's less Millerian than Victorian. There's something wrong with a sexual film when its erotic ideal, the statuesque Thurman, is kept mostly under wraps. Ironically and fatally, Henry & June lacks redeeming prurient interest...
...educated, thus calling into question what has been dubbed the brain gain. Some immigrant groups, especially Hispanics, seem to resist learning English, which in some states has already created a bilingual culture. That raises a deeply worrisome prospect. Is a healthy pluralism giving way to a corrosive separatism, the ideal of tolerance to reverse racism...
After much debate and criticism, the controversy has died down. But the conflict between maintaining artistic freedom and integrating the drama world is not easily resolved. Certainly the agreement between Actor's Equity and Mackintosh offers no ideal solutions...
Although cross casting seems like the ideal meritocracy, directors and actors alike recognize that those who "do not know the right people," very often because of their gender or ethnicity, are not even given the opportunity to audition for many roles...
...short, we become ideal fodder for concentration courses--smart enough to fulfill the requirements, cynical enough not to do the reading, glib enough to get a laugh and blase enough not to rock the boat...