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Word: dreaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...press conference some three hours after touchdown, Rutan, a former Air Force lieutenant colonel, said he felt wobbly, but declared elatedly, "Life is an opportunity. It's only limited by what you can dream about." Said Yeager, Rutan's companion for the past six years: "We got rest but not a lot of sleep." The flight, she added, "was a lot more difficult than we ever imagined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aviation: Coming Home | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...opponents of change. A very profound and serious movement has begun, and a very profound and serious struggle lies ahead. Between the people who want these changes, who dream of these changes, and the leadership, there is a layer of officialdom that does not want changes and does not want to lose some rights associated with privileges...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gorbachev Talks Tough | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

...flown home to Paris aboard a French air force jet. There he was greeted by his wife, by two colleagues who had been freed by their Lebanese kidnapers last June and, finally, by Premier Jacques Chirac. "I cannot believe I am in Paris. I still think it is a dream," Cornea said as he spoke tearfully of his homecoming and of his friend and colleague Jean-Louis Normandin, 34, who remains captive in Lebanon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: The Long Shadow of Tehran | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

MOST SADDENING Two days after being drafted No. 1 by the Celtics -- his "dream within a dream" -- Maryland Basketball Star Len Bias died in a rush of cocaine. Academic deficiencies came out then, and Coach Lefty Driesell resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Most of '86 | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

They don't make tinsel the way they used to, which may be progress but also may not. Hollywood in the 1940s, the last imperial decade of the movie industry, was a dream factory, a sausage machine, a gloriously successful trade conspiracy (till the feds made the studios sell their captive theater chains). It was, for wowsers who cared to moralize, a creepy metaphor of the American soul. Ignorance ruled. Bad taste feasted; genius writhed. Or so genius said. Oddly, though not many superior films were produced, quite a few good flicks got made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Tales Of | 1/5/1987 | See Source »

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