Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...effect as a banker and distributor for movie people seeking an honest count at the box office and exceptional artistic freedom. It has attracted such diverse talents as Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola and Joe Levine. Laments Producer Norman Jewison: "You could walk into United Artists with any crazy dream, and no one would say it was preposterous." U.A.'s venturesomeness paid well too: its 1977 revenues of $469 million from movies, TV rentals, records and music publishing represented a 24% increase, while net profits for the first nine months alone were $20.8 million, larger than for any previous...
...supporting roles. Though her pulpy fantasies of fame and fortune are ludicrously out of reach, her brave self-confidence wins over her battered G.I. audiences. The soldiers feel a kinship with the dauntless Verna because she, like them, is risking her life for the sake of an innocent American dream...
...essentially romantic character has never really been in abeyance. Even in a basically romantic country, however, romanticism has its highs and its lows, and right now it is flying high. Besides, what hap pier condition can visit a land whose national ideals and myths are known as the American Dream? Ah, perhaps that is it, the exact word to describe the new sentimental journey on which the U.S. appears to have embarked: dream. Americans have finally begun to dream again-and high time too, after nearly a generation of nightmares...
Byrd graduated at the top of his high school class of 30, but the Depression made college only a dream. It took him one year to find a job as a gas station attendant; then he switched to cutting meat in a shop closer to home for $12.50 a week. Byrd studied a butcher's manual, honing skills he had already picked up tending his family's hogs. He recalls the details: "I shot them, stabbed them, cut their throats, hung them up, cut them open, rolled out the insides, cleaned them...
...program presented readings describing King's life, including comments from his wife, Coretta Scott King, and Benjamin E. Mays, former president of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Ga., King's alma mater. The presentation also included a recording of King's 1963 "I Have a Dream" speech...