Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undistinguished group includes Barnes, a writer of insipid mysteries with titles like Death of a Deb; Flash, sports entrepreneur and president of the North American Curling League, Stella the Divorcee, an oversexed blob usually clad in "Omar the Tentmaker" originals who does things Erica Jong is afraid to even dream about; and Lizzie, a confirmed epicurean who thinks truck stops are the "best places...
Hussein I, LL.D., King of Jordan. We salute you for your inspired vision of peace and justice in the Middle East. Yitzhak Rabin, LL.D., former Prime Minister of Israel. You have worked hard, in full dedication to the founding dream of your country...
Film is their single frame of reference, the only thing they seem to think or dream about. For them history began about 1900, when the first murky images started flickering on whitewashed walls. Describing Lucas' happy marriage, Coppola can only call it "sort of romantic, like kids picking oranges in an old Jane Powell movie." There are notable similarities among the group. "They all seem to have repressed childhoods of one form or another," says a friend. "Marty Scorsese is asthmatic, Francis Coppola had polio when he was a child, and Steve Spielberg is slight of build, like George...
...started arguing, the innocent bullshit-kind of argument everyone has when he or she is a freshman and wants to reform America's social conscience instead of reading for Gov 30. Paco played his role to the hilt, all Viva Zapata and Man of La Mancha and Impossible Dream--socialism, cliches and stereotypes and fiery speeches like he'd seen out in California. He picked his favorite target, the other Chicano on the floor--a rich kid from L.A. whose father owned a big factory that built tanks and had put him on the company's board of directors...
...they have the strength, but they will fail, because they cannot stop the social process with crimes or with force. History is ours, it is made by the people." Allende, Charles Horman, and more than 50,000 Chileans have paid with their lives for their dream of a better world. The people who made Avenue of the Americas and It's Raining in Santiago share that dream--a dream of a wealthy society in which all share in a country's wealth, where foreign capital does not exploit cheap labor, where children are no longer malnourished...