Word: daydreamer
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Eros," the longest story of the book, bounces back and forth from a beleaguered mother to her daydream of being young, beautiful and nude, romping through idyllic hills and riding on giant, flying bugs. Shot down by a sleazy-looking cupid, she falls for a man with the head of a jackass. (Caveat emptor: pages 26 and 27 have been transposed in the printing, a fact you take for granted given topsy turvy nature of this work.) The Fellini-esque fantasy of a woman in the food court whose reality creates disturbing parallels in her dream world, "Eros...
...most punk bands. Baker described them as having “more of a rock edge,” with various influences from Slayer to REM to Elvis. REM was Baker’s favorite band as a kid: “I was a huge fan. I would daydream about something happening to one of the members and me filling...
...while, I couldn’t answer. I hadn’t even bothered to daydream about being in the games. True daydreaming is a rare art here at Harvard. Engaging in fantasy—from dreaming about being on a medal stand to becoming the Queen of England—doesn’t really happen once the ivy gates of ambition welcome...
Everyone asked to daydream about the future of Harvard policies first offers the caveat that no one knows exactly what the future holds. “I never make predictions, especially about the future,” confides Jay M. Harris, Wolfson professor of Jewish studies. At the same time, people like Harris are in charge of deciding what the future holds. Harris sits on the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE), where he sifts through policy proposals aimed to improve the undergraduate academic experience...
...next series demonstrates marital and domestic bliss through photographs of perfectly manicured lawns, gleaming kitchen appliances, content housewives and masculine husbands. Just when the viewer is about to look back on those good old days with fondness, he is jilted out of his daydream after reading a remark about why a husband loved his wife: “She was submissive and she worshiped him, and it was for those reasons that he had loved...