Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...giving the book a scope beyond the story of Dan Lavette, Fast creates something more than another tale of how the American Dream went sour. He imparts a feeling for the rich variety of life that was swirling in America while the Gross National Product expanded. Fast is, above all, a splendid storyteller, a chef whose recipe is a rich blend of human incident and emotion. And he has an ample stock of ingredients...
...outside Los Angeles, his solar panels over his head, Fast meditates and continues to write, putting new twists in the cliche of American history. And away below Beverly Hills, traffic hums and on bad days the smog hangs heavy, as a city of immigrants keeps reaching for a lost dream...
...unrequited. As Tracy Lord, a spoiled Main Line Socialite who is humanized by the forces of drink. Jimmy Stewart and Cary Grant, Katerine Hepburn turns in one of the most wonderful performances of her career. George Cukor skillfully directed this film version of the modern Midsummer Night's Dream that saved the National Theater Guild from bankruptcy. Grant is perfect in his Oberon role, masterfully elliptical and indirect. Ditto Jimmy Steward as the ingeneuous Bottom character. The supporting cast also turns in a series of virtuoso performances, making The Philadelphia Story a tour de force of romantic comedy...
...Baum, though, the thesis may not just be a learning but a practical venture too, because she would like to open her own restaurant some time after graduation. "Right now it's a dream that I would open my own place, but I'd like to," she says...
...blocks, broad relentless avenues, a crushing regimentation. The idealism of the functionalist heroes (Mies especially) has the perfect internal unity of farce. It belonged to the same order of ideas as Albert Speer's designs for Hitler-a totalitarianism of structure. But they linger on paper as the dream architecture of the 20th century. Because these termitaries were never built, they could not be destroyed _ Robert Hughes