Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...FIRST dream I am a Lawyer. My client is an innocent man accused of murder. He's on the stand, being grilled by the opposing attorney who is facing me with his eyes closed, caressing his chin in dramatic silence, weighing carefully his next move. His face cringes suddenly into a terrible scowl, and he swings his body violently toward my client...
Although an Italian, Toscanini was portrayed as embodying the panoply of virtues that Tocqueville, a century before, had labeled as particularly "American": pragmatism, efficiency, and belief in democracy. In addition, Horowitz writes--and this is a fascinating insight--Toscanini seemed to fulfil America's dream of denying the significance of the past, which seemed to dictate that American art would continue to lag behind Europe...
...there is a strong current of opinion among specialists that the whole building is hopeless and the only thing to do is raze it and start over again with materials prefabricated in the U.S. "Putting up the building has just got to be a bugger's dream," says one expert. Hal Lipset, a San Francisco private investigator who won fame in the 1960s by concealing a bug in a martini olive, agrees: "The whole building is one big microphone." If that advice is followed, however, the U.S. for many years would have to keep conducting diplomacy in the old building...
Whew! Another worry laid to rest. Moonlighting's Bruce Willis can prevail on the big screen. The presence of this teen dream in Blind Date is undoubtedly why a mostly indifferent movie has zipped up the charts. As Walter Davis he offers a neat variant on his TV character, acting like a stooge but saving himself finally with hidden reserves of smarts. And he does it with style...
Through the course of the play, Tam and his Japanese sidekick, "Blackjap" Kenji (Edward Park), confront the disappointing reality behind their romantic conceptions of both white and Black America. In a comically surreal dream sequence their childhood hero, the Lone Ranger, is exposed as a heroine-addicted, racist fraud. Their long-awaited meeting with Ovaltine's Black trainer, Charley Popcorn, proves disillusioning as well--offended by their Black mannerisms, the old man dismisses the duo as a pair of insane "yellow negroes...