Word: daydreamers
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...they increase the desperate quality of his songs. One has to be in the very depths of malaise in order to bank hopes on the possibility of star travel, extraterrestial visitors or any of the technological redemptions that Bowie offers in numbers like "Starman" or "Moonage Daydream." One of his most poignant cuts relates the paltry and vicious in everyday life, only to conclude with the mysterious chorus "Is There Life On Mars?" The frustration and loneliness is so extreme that a human solution is precluded...
There is an ingenuous charm at work here, the quality of a daydream. All the characters are creatures of the best reveries of childhood. This does not mean that they should be taken lightly. Writer-Director Milius has some distance on his dreams, but he is still absolutely devoted to them. The Wind and the Lion has a view of the glories of combat and courage that is both willful and wistful. All enemies are united in a common bond of honor. Blood shed is never ignoble, always ennobling, and adversaries fight with grace and mutual respect. The movie even...
Like many another piano student, she logged the requisite thousand hours before Carl Czerny's yellow-backed exercise books. But while Roberta Flack labored over knuckle-aching third and fourth finger trills, Rubina Flake-a daydream twin invented in early childhood-polished off Chopin concertos. At 13, Flack played the complete score of Handel's Messiah for her church choir. In her early 20s, she became a serious opera student. At that time Flake, presumably, was a diva at the Met. It came as no small blow then when Flack's vocal coach gently suggested...
...idea should not be lightly dismissed as a science-fiction daydream. O'Neill has impressive credentials, among them his conception of the colliding-beam storage ring principle, which has been used in the design of some of the world's most powerful particle accelerators. His scheme for space colonies was recently the subject of a day-long scientific meeting in Princeton, and will soon be discussed at length in the journal Physics Today. Basically, O'Neill proposes building completely self-contained space communities in the form of cylinders some 16 miles long and four miles in diameter...
...being hanged, the machine wonderfully concentrates the mind. Hitched up to a truck or bus driver, an airline pilot or an air-traffic controller, it may prevent accidents. Generally, it could be used to teach people to keep their minds on the matter at hand. But the right to daydream-the right not to pay attention-should be rigidly respected and, if need be, fiercely fought for, even if it is not listed in the Bill of Rights. A machine that could banish idle reveries would be a nightmare...