Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that mass murder is a viable form of family planning--quicker than divorce, and a hell of a lot more fun, if your interests lie toward the macabre. Terry O'Quinn, playing the psycho Stepfather, has a proposition no one can refuse. He wants the perfect family, the American Dream, and if things don't work out...well, then, what's one dead family more or less...
...Inquirer Reporter Loretta Schwartz-Nobel, prefers the interior decoration of the not-so-new journalism. She has had the doubtful advantage of interviewing the imprisoned criminals in the case, and likes to titillate readers with her reactions: "That night, after falling into a troubled sleep, I had my first dream about William Bradfield. He had escaped from prison and had come directly to my house. I was alone. When I opened the door and saw him, I was surprised, but greeted him as a friend. He put his arms around me. 'I've waited a long time for this...
...black-and-white melodramas of the period. Earlier this season, the same company presented a Mad Max version of Bizet's Carmen by David Pountney that replaced castanets and mantillas with feral children darting amid junked American automobiles. In Paris, Producer Seth Schneidman staged Strauss's Elektra as a dream-theory psychodrama, freely mixing images of Greek antiquity and 19th century Europe...
...sure, London's Royal Opera and the Vienna State Opera remain committed to traditional opera staged in traditional ways, sung by the same coterie of jet- bound stars who appear at the Met. And the old style still has its rewards; the Royal's Der Rosenkavalier, a rococo dream handsomely sung and lovingly led by the company's new music director, Bernard Haitink, is impossible to envisage any other...
East Africa, where the wild things are, is an earthly paradise, a dream kingdom where the actual and the psychic coincide. It is also a killing field. Kenya, infested by poachers and suffering the highest rate of population growth in the world, has become a proving ground for extinction. Can the wild animals survive? And if they vanish, what exactly will have been lost? See ESSAY...