Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ageless child of media fame who made scores of underground films in which often nothing happened (Empire offered eight hours of staring at the Empire State Building) and who published his own magazine, Interview. Andy, the living transparency, with his face pressed to the shop window of the American dream and his head full of schemes to titillate an aging, youth-obsessed American culture...
...business. Instead of being short and well-focused, they often end up with overwrought plots and underdeveloped characters, trying to squeeze all of life's sorrows and tragedies into 45 minutes. The bad one-acts always seem to center on two or three character who reveal their every secret dream and sin at warp speed...
Indeed a beep machine seemed superfluous considering someone had already installed a phone by the empty bed beside me which kept on ringing with calls for someone named "Herman." The telephone lay just out of my reach, waiting silently for the precise moment of my dream when the girl comes in. Then it would ring, I would jump, and some nimrod on the other end would ask for "Herman" or hang up at the sound of my enraged greeting. I thought maybe the nurses were calling the number and then laughing hysterically when I answered. I asked for the extra...
...dream was to come back and lead Harvard to the Ivy title," Duncan says with a touch of irony. "That was one of the reasons, I remember, that I wanted to come to Harvard--coach told me that Harvard had never won a championship and I've always thought of myself as a winner and I thought I could help lead Harvard to that first championship. So this year has been very tough on me--a lot of re-evaluation of myself...
...return to an earlier, idyllic time. That time, though, never existed. Reagan, like most Americans, was nurtured on the largesse of big government. He owes his careers in movies and politics to great corporation and manipulative political managers. His vision of "morning in America" was never more than our dream of a past that never was. Its time to wake up and get on with...