Word: daydream
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...with a smile that might be a wince. His two grandsons make an ordinary nuisance of themselves. His granddaughter, the lovely Mireille (Katia Wostrikoff), watches today's dinner spin on its fireplace rotisserie and gets caught up a tree. Suddenly, like a sunburst in the middle of a daydream, Monsieur's daughter Irène (Sabine Azema) motors in, abustle with gaiety and impish reproaches. She takes her papa to a country inn for a chat and one lingering waltz before nightfall; then, as abruptly as she came, Irène drives off to patch up a lovers...
Actually, unlike others who share this absurd Walter Mitty daydream, I had done something about it. A month before the Games I had gone to the Olympic Training Center under the shadow of Pikes Peak in Colorado Springs to be tested in the Sports Physiology laboratories there to see if by chance there was a particular Olympic event for which I was a perfect physical specimen to suit...
...boss was my uncle." He spent two decades painting in oils. In 1968 he turned to sculpture because of a recurring daydream: "I wanted to see a fellow on a bench reading a paper, but I didn't know why." The Newspaper Reader was his first bronze work, and it still sits in seven locations...
...absence of such a structure, the Chief Executive must exercise a lonely and nearly superhuman monitorship of the whole system-an undertaking that is beyond the limits of individual knowledge and energy. Vision without discipline is a daydream...
Almost from the moment that CBS aired the first half-hour national newscast in 1963, the three commercial networks have yearned to expand their evening news shows to an hour. But affiliate stations repeatedly refused to yield lucrative air time, and the hour daily network newscast remains a daydream. That standoff has given the noncommercial Public Broadcasting Service a chance to top its giant rivals: last week Anchors Robert MacNeil and James Lehrer doubled up their MacNeil-Lehrer Report, a nightly half hour on some single topic that was the most widely viewed program on PBS, into a multi-issue...