Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Imagine the Boston Red Sox holding a marathon like the one the Boston Symphony/Boston Pops is holding this weekend. What a dream-come-true that would be for George Plimpton '48, a Harvard Poonie and pro-athlete aspirant, if he were in town. Four days of around-the-clock broadcasts of the most stupendous Bosox games of all time at Plimpton's request. Watching the game from the bullpen. Meetings with his idols in the clubhouse. My own pulse accelerates at the thought of what such an opportunity would do to the pulse rate of the little freckled kid next...
Viewers who find this response funny will be able to bounce along cheerfully with Fun with Dick and Jane. Dick and Jane Harper (George Segal and Jane Fonda) have been rudely awakened from the American dream. They find that downward mobility squeezes the middle class as much as upward mobility does. They are denied the legalistic safety nets of the rich, and they lack the street smarts to cut themselves in on such benefits of the poor as unemployment pay and food stamps. Since they are hopelessly overqualified for any available honest job, they turn to dishonest work. They begin...
...biggest challenge, though, is one stated by Guy Metraux, a UNESCO official who edits the review Cultures: "The trouble with cultural centers is that no matter what you put in them, they all sound alike, and they are boring." If that is the fate of Pompidou's dream, it would be a pity...
Cheerful Smile. The teacher stands up to the boss and wins back her man, but not before making moral weather as heavy as a tundra blizzard out of it. "Like a lot of people, I came up here chasing a dream," she says. "Unlike a lot of people, I won't sell my soul...
...their way in a dark forest straight out of Dante. Their lodging resembles a late medieval castle, but it may also be a metaphor for history: "... an inn of passage, where people unknown to one another live together for one night..." The guests are figments in the Western narrative dream of Chaucer and Boccaccio...