Word: dreamer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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There is no way back. Only a dreamer canbelieve that the solutions lies in curtailing theprogress of civilization in some way or other. Themain task in the coming era is something else: aradical renewal of our sense of responsibility.Our conscience must catch up to our reason,otherwise we are lost...
...believing that Larry was actually working for them. Despite his skill as a double agent, Tim's protaga retains a belief in his own innocence, a Byronic flair with women and a hunger for lost causes. "My sin," Tim reflects, "was to promote the cheat in him above the dreamer, which is why he sometimes hated me a little more than I deserved...
...James Fox is competent as Astrov, and at times genuinely moving, but here too we hunger for something larger. Astrov is a feckless visionary obsessed with the future; in Fox's controlled performance we miss the simultaneous brightness and vacancy of eye that belong to the incurable schemer and dreamer...
This is a tender book. The outlaw Elvis, the performer one fan called "a great big beautiful hunk of forbidden fruit," the savvy, surly dreamer who once remarked to a reporter, "You can't be a rebel if you grin," is set forth here as a kind of perpetual lost boy who clung to the sure anchorage of his family and friends. But as the book closes, friends become salaried employees, and the hometown girls are outnumbered by stars flying in from Hollywood. Natalie Wood came to Memphis and lasted four days, stunned by the celebrity madness surrounding Elvis...
Nothing compared to the Kazifornia Dreamer...