Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...season was more than any twenty-four-year-old should have been able to even dream of....It was thrilling for my entire family, because the one thing that my mother, Randy, and everyone knows is that I'll never forget that I'm a small town kid from Ohio and Texas whose family is--after the Lord--the reason for whatever good has come...
DIED. David Hefner, 38, AIDS sufferer whose request to renew his marriage vows to his wife Maria at St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York City, her "dream" church, was initially rebuffed last January because his condition was "life threatening," but then, after protests by civil rights and church activists, was granted in February; in New York City...
Most of all he toured. If every choreographer's dream is a company of his own, the frustration of touring is the exhausting price to be paid. Heaven knows the beautiful curse of solitude is lifted. There are six seats on the train for seven weary bodaahs. Curtains, stagehands, producers are all nonfunctioning. Taylor is terrified that he won't have enough money to pay for tickets home. He constantly feels insufficient as a leader and fearful that his dancers are bumptious slobs. He even cuts one of his men's hair at an airport. The dancers give as good...
...appearance is "Ooooh, isn't he cute?" His face is a posh prison, his smile a winsome rictus. Because everyone wants to mother him, or date him, or have him for a baby-sitter, nobody will let him grow up. He must remain harmless, asexual, a teen-dream Dorian Gray doll or risk losing the devotion of his millions of chaperones...
Every immigrant has a dream: to be free, unafraid, able to earn a decent living. Those are the benefits that America seems to offer to newcomers to these shores. But the reality is rarely so sunny. For millions of Mexicans, Central Americans, Chinese, Irish and others who enter surreptitiously, America can be as much a prison as a refuge. Most illegal immigrants live along the margins of society, working cheaply, anonymously and without complaint so as to avoid detection by authorities. Although they have become part of the texture of American life, they have remained anxious fugitives, separate and unequal...