Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could grow up small and not develop an inferiority complex. He could imagine himself a jockey. And when his father is a blacksmith and his mother a second-generation owner and a trainer, when he looks forward to celebrating his Derby Week birthday every year at Churchill Downs, the dream doesn't seem so farfetched. If, in addition, he has been sitting on horses since his toddler's legs were long enough to splay across a saddle, he would have a natural head start...
This is an unfortunate reminder for Milos Forman. In 1968 he was still making movies in Prague; after seeing Hair in New York, he wanted to bring the musical to his home town. The 1968 Soviet invasion cooled that dream, and it did not thaw until Forman met Co-Producer Persky at a party (for Cuckoo's Nest) in Manhattan three years ago. "These people fought the good fight, and they shouldn't be ashamed of it," Forman says of his guests for the day. "We think the time to make the movie Hair...
...this semiprivate world, the wives of the rich can buy Christian Dior gowns at elegant shops in Riyadh and Jidda. At beach houses on weekends, young women whose mothers would not dream of appearing in public without a veil may don swimsuits that violate the spirit if not the letter of Islamic injunctions about female modesty...
...death in the fight; the leader of the committee was tried, convicted and beheaded. The committees will publicly flog anyone found drinking alcohol in public. But respect for privacy is so great in Saudi Arabia that not even the most fanatical of these protectors of public virtue would ever dream of breaking into a home...
During gloomy days earlier this decade, planemakers kept their spirits up with thoughts of the boom to come when airlines finally had enough cash to replace their aging, noisy and fuel-inefficient fleets. At last, this dream seems to be becoming reality. Last month Pan Am signed a $500 million contract with Lockheed for twelve wide-bodied TriStar L-1011s, and last week small, state-owned Singapore Airlines (SIA) stole Pan Am's headlines. It placed with Boeing the richest order in commercial aviation history: $900 million for 13 jumbo 747s and six medium-range 727s. Gleefully grabbing...