Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...believe it! Instead of giving us a cover story about Elvis Presley, a man who made the American dream a reality, you gave us an eight-page spread about an American nightmare...
...Aristotle Onassis, who shortly before he died told Quinn not to hesitate to play the role. "Do it," he urged. "You'll treat me kindly." Since then Quinn has thought a lot about Onassis-and about Sánchez. Says he: "There is a similarity in their dreams. Sánchez's dream was to build a house to protect him from the world, while Onassis' dream was to build an island to protect himself." In both characters, Quinn says, he finds "a certain emptiness...
...Sunday, Bobby Deerfield), Marthe, 33, has been resting in her Left Bank mansion in Paris. This week she will return to Manhattan and the apartment she shares with Actor Al Pacino. When she is ready to work again, it may be back to the boards. Says Marthe: "My only dream is to go back to the stage-and why not on Broadway...
Amuse of many parts, the American dream is to get a good education, land a job with upward mobility, achieve success and, high on the list, buy a home of one's own. To a remarkable degree, that aspect of the dream las become a reality. Almost two of three American families own their own homes, a far higher proportion than in any other industrial nation. Though foreign visitors are appalled by the squalor of U.S. big-city slums, they are invariably awed by the spaciousness, conveniences and comfort of the houses in which most middle-income Americans live. Three...
...dream was dented a bit during the last recession; mortgage money became so scarce that relatively few new houses were built. But the big and mercurial housing industry, which fell harder than almost any other business during the slump, is coming on strong in the current economic recovery. This year builders will hammer together 1.9 million dwellings, about three-quarters of them single-family homes and the rest apartments. That is still short of the 2 million-plus that the industry reached in three years of the early 1970s, but a spectacular rebound from the low of February 1975, when...