Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...with only pen and paper, the scrutiny of the resident youth gang can be nearly unbearable. I passed through a gauntlet of youths with a pounding heart." His apprehension soon gave way to sadness. "While most Americans make a point of avoiding the bad side of town, those within dream of one day escaping. My depressing conclusion was that few will succeed...
Though the young Larson liked to draw dinosaurs and gorillas, he did not dream of becoming a cartoonist. Instead, as a communications major at Washington State University in Pullman, he hoped someday to save the world from mundane advertising. As it turned out, the world was not ready for salvation when he graduated, so he played the banjo in a duo and worked at a music store. The latter job so depressed Larson that in 1976 he temporarily quit to try his hand at drawing. In two days he sketched a few cartoons and sold them...
...bracing variant on his favorite sort of central figure. Perhaps Weir saw in this sacred monster the makings of dark comedy; Allie is a compendium of the cliches of liberaloid social criticism, rich in potential self-parody. For besides creating an Eden for his family, Allie has another, grander dream: the construction of a huge ice-making facility he has designed. Surely there is something funny about a man building an ice palace to serve a few hundred natives who have happily survived for centuries without...
...above all, its light. In Arles the initial shock of the landscape, impacted in citron and chrome yellows, had dominated his palette. But once he was inside the asylum at Saint-Remy, a different and more reflective way of looking at the landscape around him took over. "What I dream of in my best moments," he wrote, "is not so much striking color effects as once more the half-tones...
...Dream on, buddy," said the third guy I called. "These days you couldn't even buy the building inspector...