Word: daydreamed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lower-middle-class apartment in a Mid western city, Amanda Wingfield ("an exact portrait of my mother," says Williams) tries to cope with a peevish present by chattering of a fancied past. The son Tom (Williams) suffocates in a shoe factory and goes to movies to daydream of escape. The daughter Laura (Williams' sister Rose) has a mind and a personality as fragile as the little glass animals that deck her room. But the mother dragoons Tom into bringing home a marriageable "gentleman caller" for Laura. When the caller turns out to be engaged, and unintentionally breaks...
Presumed Married. Juan Perón, 66, ex-Dictator of Argentina, who long publicly shunned another marriage for fear it might smash his daydream of returning to power in the nation that once wanted to canonize his late wife Evita; and Isabel Martinez, 27, petite blonde "secretary" who has been his constant companion since shortly after his 1955 ouster and whom he began introducing socially as "my wife" after Christmas Eve Mass in Madrid; under unknown circumstances but probably in Panama soon after Perón's eviction from Argentina; he for the third time, she for the first...
These days, there is only one small sign that Romagna's pen is slowly tiring: the old nightmare has given way to a daydream in which Adlai Stevenson is President. This latter-day reverie has nothing to do with Romagna's political preference. To him, all men, including Presidents, are measured by the quality of their syntax, platform delivery and oral timbre. Using these criteria, Romagna says Stevenson would be a cinch to transcribe. "Adlai's English was made for the shorthand system," says Jack Romagna. "It's marvelous. He has a grand command...
...story," but Red China's official newspaper, People's Daily, promptly set the record straight. The Communist bloc would never stop "supporting the revolutionary struggles of the oppressed nations and people," said People's Daily, and anyone who thinks otherwise is living "an idiot's daydream...
...cannot praise too highly the performance turned in by the boys in Vigo's cast. When they stood stop the school's roof in the final moment, I had no doubt that they had won a lasting victory. The impossible had become true; a daydream was reality. It's so convincing, in fact, that the French Ministry of Education suppressed it for fifteen years, fearing that it would cause discipline in the schools to slacken. At a press conference, the film caused a riot...