Word: daydreamers
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This memoir by former Army Pilot Robert Mason recalls the violent, deafening, treetop world of 1,000 Viet Nam helicopter missions. Chickenhawk begins with a Florida farm boy's daydream of levitating above the fields and ends with the veteran suspended in horror and disillusionment...
...daydream of an alternative self is a strange, flitting thing. This wistful speculation often occurs in summer, when a vacation loosens the knot of one's vocational identity. Why, dammit, says the refugee from middle management on his 13th day on the lake, why not just stay here all year? Set up as a fishing guide. Open a lodge. We'll take the savings and . . . The soul at odd moments (the third trout, the fourth beer) will make woozy rushes at the pipe dream. Like a gangster who has cooperated with the district attorney, we want...
...very much a producer's film, a George Lucas film, reflecting not only his taste in entertainment but a carefully evolved production style that leaves plenty of room for creativity and none at all for miscalculation or self-indulgence. The film began as "a daydream" back in 1973, when Lucas first got the desire "to make a B movie I wanted to see," and was modeled on Republic serials, those thrill-a-minute kiddie-matinee favorites...
...Brazilian musical? The words evoke memories of Carmen Miranda, teeth gleaming, hips undulating, r's trilling, balancing a headdress of tropical fruit heavy enough to give the strongest Rio dock worker a hernia. That was '40s Hollywood, whose notion of Brazil was half picture postcard, half Daliesque daydream. Since then, a group of engaged intellectuals, collectively called cinema novo, have created a native awareness of the medium's power to teach and persuade. But before you can send a movie audience marching out to the barricades, you must get them into the theater. Don't cerebrate...
...misinterpretation of rape, the classic overpowering male has become an attractive fantasy for many women. A woman may daydream of a Bogie to come fall in love with her or of a dark handsome man to ravish her; this, in no way, means that she wants to be raped. When a woman fantasizes, she is safe and in control of both her actions and his. In reality rape is nothing like her fantasy. Rape is an act of violence, not of love, romance or sex. It is a matter of life and death; either the woman submits or she dies...