Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jewelry of hip, rich women. Coke became a workplace pick-me-up, like coffee, only perkier. Says Dr. Wesley Westman, chief of the alcohol- and drug- dependency center at the Veterans Administration hospital in Miami: "Cocaine is the drug of choice by people who are into the American dream -- I love my job, I am successful, except that they don't and they...
First married at 19, Earle hitched to Nashville while his wife was away and he thought he could make his mark. He moved there in 1974 and managed to write a few songs while cadging odd jobs. He built swimming pools. He worked house construction. Once, in 1975, a dream almost came true: Elvis was going to record one of Earle's songs, but he never showed up at the studio. After cutting a few singles for Epic and an album for CBS that was shelved, Earle recalls, "I lost all my confidence. I thought I had lost my edge...
...most of Charles' time at Cheam was spent inpursuits normal for a young boy. It was there thathe discovered a love of acting after he performedfor the first time in a synopsis of theShakespeare plays. Charles realized the dream ofevery actor when he stepped in for the boy who wasto play Duke of Gloucester, who later becomesRichard III. In a particularly appropriate scene,Charles delivered the line, "And soon may I ascendthe throne...
...authentic fusion of Oriental and Occidental music has been under way since Composer Lou Harrison experimented with the Balinese gamelan orchestra before World War II. And the healthy interaction between the rock and "classical" avant-gardes, which bore fruit a decade ago in the creative synergy between Tangerine Dream and minimalist composers like Philip Glass, may produce more music of lasting value, just as when jazz first captured the imaginations of composers like Ravel and Gershwin. Whatever happens, it will be a step up from Wham! and Ozzy Osbourne. "New Age fans don't want to feel they are mellowing...
...painting had already . claimed -- the unobliged liberty of thought itself. It extracted new models from the changing culture around it, from painting and music, anthropology and psychoanalysis, from the idea of the "primitive" (that escape route of a culture stuck in the gridlock of its own sophistication) and the dream of a utopian machine future. One could have a sculpture that was also a little building, like Alberto Giacometti's The Palace at 4 A.M., 1933, or a still life, like Henri Laurens's Dish with Grapes, 1918; an image of landscape, like David Smith's Australia...