Complaints about the idolization of role models who suggest unhealthy lifestyles are culturally endemic.
The idolization of a woman in running attire is surprising in a country that remains rooted in Muslim tradition and whose prime minister has been relentlessly trying to bring it back to a more conservative state.
Lake Hollywood (2000) chronicles the lives of dissatisfied people and the futility of their idolization of celebrities, and Chaucer in Rome (2002), a sequel to The House of Blue Leaves, satirizes art, religion, and fame.
But we should also realize that American culture, with its idolization of the rich and famous, will afford him more protection than the rest of us.
Maybe the absurd idolization of celebrities is all we have to fill the void left by the failures of our public "statesmen".
And "with all my idolization of Glenn Gould," she added, "it turned out I didn't play it like him at all".
And talk radio's subtext included resentment that there would be no Wheaties cereal box idolization of Ray Lewis, the Ravens' fleet, formidable linebacker.
What's more, the rapid creation of a system of one-party rule formed a good basis for the idolization of Kim Il Sung.
He is too self-obsessed, too focused on bringing to life his own childhood memories and fantasies, which in addition to an obsession with Farrah Fawcett include an idolization of the daredevil Evel Knievel.
Instead of being schooled in the "culture of peace," the next generation of Palestinians is being relentlessly fed a rhetorical diet that includes the idolization of terrorists, the demonization of Jews and the conviction that sooner or later Israel should cease to exist.
