Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sanders, this isn't a dream, his team really is as bad as it seems...
...seems to me that you could use a horse. Please use this one." This is characterization of great subtlety, extracting Malory's essence and couching it in terms that are not fixed by time or place. Steinbeck's descriptions can reach the same crystal perfection; a day painted as "dream-darkened" is captured in one adjective...
Committee for Promulgation of New and Improved American Dream...
...ending the novel, which required a murder and a plane crash. Here, Stahr is swallowed up in the looming darkness of a sound stage. It is a lovely, but treacherously romantic image. In effect, Kazan and Pinter turn their own movie into another part of Stahr's dream. The movie is about the sad solitude that power brings, the high price of genius. These are shallow, narcissistic notions, not so much out of place as out of focus. It was Hollywood, after all, that helped create such ideas, and has done so much to perpetuate them. Jay Cocks
...accounts a dream come true. Airborne not only allows the less fortunate to share that dream but indirectly provides an excellent working definition of a conservative: someone who has something of spiritual or material value worth conserving. Buckley-may his saints and accountants preserve him-has plenty of both. R.Z. Sheppard