Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Only Eliza Gleason and Laurence Bouvard as Ken's sister and niece seem to realize that their jobs as actors don't end after their lines are said. Both create characters of some dimension, and Bouvard is especially good as a precious 13-year old whose dream of becoming a famous artist will never come true. Neither, though, can save a Fifth of July that's about as desirable as a fifth of castor...
GELSEY KIRKLAND lived the dream of many young girls. She was, for 10 years, one of the prima ballerinas of American dance. New ballets were created specifically for her by the finest choreographers. She was the hand-picked partner and lover of Soviet sensation Mikhail Baryshnikov. She guest-starred with companies throughout the world. She was hailed as the ballerina of our time...
...Kirkland's dream ended suddenly when--at the height of her career--she awoke to find herself a cocaine addict and an anorexic. In her autobiography, Dancing On My Grave, she shatters the idyllic image of the dance world and exposes the hardships and conflict that accompany the roses and the applause...
...longed for a dance that portrayed the human drama with more depth and diversity. Such a dance was a seemingly impossible dream. I never uttered such ambitious words about my art, even to myself, without feelings of absolute loneliness and derangement...
Young reporters all over town have visions of Pulitzer Prizes dancing in their heads. Senators like Massachusetts' John Kerry, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee who for almost a year has been investigating the National Security Council's superoperator Oliver North, dream of a starring role in nationally televised hearings from the famous Senate Caucus Room. We have not had anything good up there since John Dean took the stand. At the end of this + particular dark tunnel, Kerry, if he and his managers handle things well, might see a burst of light and a chance to capture...