Word: dreamful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Dream Deferred...
Brandy's biggest fear is losing her stardom in scandal: "I'm scared of ever making one mistake where tabloids and magazines can make me look like something I've never been." So far, though, her life has been pretty much an embarrassment-free dream. Her latest record, Never S-A-Y Never, isn't just double platinum, it's quadruple platinum. She has worked with Whitney Houston (on Cinderella). Now she's working with Ross. Even Brandy's dad, Willie Ray Norwood Sr., is impressed by this latest pairing. "I've loved Diana Ross my whole life," he says...
What could have been a relocation nightmare, however, turned into something of a dream. Carlson flew the Beards to Minneapolis twice so they could get a feel for the area even before he formally accepted the job, and paid an outside real estate company to show them around the most attractive residential sections of the city and surrounding suburbs. The real estate firm also offered the relocating family detailed demographics on various suburbs, including the rankings of their schools and the projected economic viability of these various towns. This way the Beards would have as much information as possible...
...would have been if he had been told this was going to happen. At that point, I was unemployed and ghostwriting teen horror novels for money. I thought I was coming to the end of my rope as a writer and I would have to give up my dream. But things have turned around since them...
More than just an exploration of space, Star Trek serves as a vessel for the exploration of the human condition, as well as social conditions relevant to the world today. Indeed, it has come to embody optimism and the hope that one day, Roddenberry's dream of a peaceful, explorative society can perhaps be realized...