Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other immigrants, particularly those who want to get ahead in the best American tradition. Few come for a handout; they are anxious to make a living. An illegal alien who is currently employed as an industrial painter in Brooklyn used to live on a South Pacific island where he dreamed of the American paradise of hard work. "It is the obsession of every islander," he says, "to come and be rewarded for what he does"-a dream shared round the world...
...there is growing apprehension that the illegal immigrant's dream-come-true may turn out to be a nation al nightmare. The AFL-CIO argues that the illegals not only take jobs away from Americans but force down wage levels by being willing to work for low salaries. The INS estimates that the newcomers cost the American taxpayer $13 billion a year in social services, and aggravate the already unfavorable balance of payments by annually sending home $3 billion-or more...
...there a limit to the housing spiral? President Carter's energy conservation program, announced last week, will certainly take at least some of the luster off the great American Dream of a home in the suburbs. Gasoline prices -and thus commuting costs for many suburbanites-seem destined to rise sharply over the next several years, along with home heating costs. Some home builders in temperate and colder climates are now including wall and ceiling insulation, but much of the country's existing housing stock lacks proper protection. That may make it difficult for newhouse buyers...
...credit, Altman has found a realistic landscape, the Southern California desert, that is also a very persuasive analogue to a dream landscape-essentially empty, so that it throws its few symbolic structures into high relief. And the film's three title characters have the air of dream works about them. Tantalizingly, even hilariously real some of the time in speech and manner, they yet manage to drift away, eluding the grasp of understanding...
...feminine trinity -mother, daughter and granddaughter. They seem at once mad and serene. Maybe Altman is exorcising some sort of masculine guilt here. Surely he is displaying some of the virtues associated with him: fine acting performances, expert cinematography, some wild humor. But he should have taken his dream first to a psychiatrist for analysis, then perhaps to a writer for dramatic structuring. Altman has indulged himself mightily, and however great his talent, there is no reason to add the public's indulgence...