Word: daydreamer
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...surrounded by coca plantations. In the latest spate of politically-motivated violence, some citizens are murdered while others—probably including Ismael’s wife, though it’s never made clear—are kidnapped. Once content to drink coffee in the plaza and daydream about beautiful young women, Ismael is suddenly stricken by his wife’s disappearance and sets out to look...
...fine writer, thrilled to see that name in the pages of this magazine. All these identities are me: Ms. when I'm out slaying dragons, Mrs. when I'm in the company of those I love most, Miss when I want to stay home under the covers and daydream. Feminists a generation ago fought for the title and dreamed of Freedom and Choice and Opportunity; maybe the surest sign that they've won is not which title we pick, but that we can have them all at once...
...write for the page, for the inner eye and the inner ear,” he says. And despite the meticulous research that goes into his translations and his collaborations, Armitage is still most fond of his more personal poetry, which he refers to as his “daydream poems.” “They’re the things I want to write for the rest of my life,” he says.Whether collaborating creatively with the disenfranchised or teaching creative writing in universities, Armitage treats his role as a poet as a fundamentally social...
...subsidies to help those who can't afford it and new regulations of insurers' practices - wouldn't go into effect until 2013 (this is partly because of the complexity of setting up such a monumental enterprise and partly to help lessen the 10-year cost of the bill). Republicans daydream that Dems could be seen as passing a giant, expensive boondoggle with nothing to show for it. "People are already worried at the rate of spending going on," says Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican who heads the National Republican Senatorial Committee, which helps get Republican candidates elected...
...replaces the version of events. What is relayed are Katarina’s emotional and physical demands—and the accusation that Louise is caught in a daydream.It is the reader most of all who feels caught in a daydream, shuffled between the novel’s ever-changing “I”s and shifting versions of events. Goethe is a smiling dog who eats sandwiches. Goethe is porcelain statue. A suitcase is packed by Randi. A suitcase, topped with the woman on page eight’s ubiquitous white hat is packed...