Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million coronation [Dec. 19] was an insult to the black man's pride. This extravaganza staged in the poor country of Central Africa is not to be criticized for its lavishness. It lifts the hearts and eyes of millions of depressed people. It gives them something to dream about and stories for their great-grandchildren...
Taking a longer view, Reynolds adds, "I'm trying very subtly and subliminally to ease myself away from Billy Clyde Puckett and toward Gary Grant. I may be the most unsophisticated Gary Grant in 20 years, but I'm going to get there." Beyond that lies a still wilder dream. "I want to lead a quiet, pseudointellectual life and go out and direct a picture two times a year. You can only hold your stomach in for so many years...
...Dieterich, is titled "the Knockdownable Sensuous Topograph"; a cross between a playpen and a bed, it is easily disassembled and can be made for about $40. A less felicitously named objet, a 4 ft. 10 in.-long coffee table designed by Student Greg Peterson, is called "Plumber's Dream"; a bronzed glass top mounted on plastic piping and sundry elbows and joints, it has a kind of Bauhaus elegance mit wit (it costs $30 to make...
...Melodys, Con rides swaggeringly forth to avenge such an insult by issuing a dueling challenge. Terribly beaten by the police, Con stumbles home in a state of catatonic silence, all the posturing and pride of him. This time he goes forth only to kill the last emblem of his dream, his blooded mare, his Byronic self...
...confirmed a dream addict as any of the tosspots in The Iceman Cometh, Con Melody is unlike them in having a family around him-a low-born wife Nora (Geraldine Fitzgerald), who unfalteringly loves him, his mettlesome daughter Sara, who is increasingly roused to hate. Yet each inspires in him only a more desolating sense of aloneness. In the costly family game of lies and consequences, Con bears more than a few resemblances to O'Casey's Paycock...