Word: daydreamers
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Beyond all this, Miller remains fascinating because he fulfilled an almost universal male daydream: he married Marilyn Monroe. By his account, he savored her wit and beauty but was driven away by her self-abasing craziness; in the end she was pleading for his return, phoning to ask, as if they had not agreed ! to part, "Aren't you coming home?" He adds, "Her voice now had all its old softness and vulnerability, as though nothing at all destructive had happened in the past four years...
...three or four hours later." Karasu points out that nonadaptive behavior, or the inability to cope with freeway stress, could lead to heart attacks or strokes for some. He advises motorists to relax by thinking they are passengers in an airplane with a captain running things. "Listen to music, daydream, focus on things you normally don't find time to think about," says Karasu. "Above all else, accept that you are where you are, and there is nothing that you can do about...
...games with still not a single change of lead, the home advantage started to seem a curse, though not to Ron Darling. The unlucky loser of the series' first decision ran his streak of unearned runs to 14 innings in the fourth game, better than any daydream he could have invented as a Fenway bleacher child. Hawaiian born, he said, "I've never quite understood why my parents moved from Hawaii to Massachusetts anyway." Referring to homegrown Boston Catcher Rich Gedman, Darling was particularly proud that "two guys from a place where players aren't supposed to come from...
...exports would become cheaper, while foreign imports would grow more expensive for American consumers. The trade deficit would begin its long-awaited decline. Economists cautioned that it would take time--twelve months, a year and a half at the most. But it would happen. This was no idle daydream, after all, but a proven tenet of modern economic policy...
...Daydream of a defeated politician: everybody still loves you; they roast you, they toast you, then they wheel up buckets of money; and finally, of course, they vote you in. Last week Geraldine Ferraro, 49, seemed well on her way to fulfilling the dream. At a $100-a-head benefit roast for the Women's Action Alliance in Manhattan, she took a round of ribbing from the likes of her daughter Laura Zaccaro, Feminist Gloria Steinem, New York City Council President Carol Bellamy and Comedian Marilyn Michaels. Then Ferraro took a turn at ribbing herself. "Governor Cuomo said the focus...