Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Such weights evoke violent reactions. The futurists set out to create the image of an Italy that did not yet exist, a utopia of tension and transformation whose god was the machine. Its architecture would not be the old cellular stone hill town but the dream environment conjured up by Sant'Elia: all girders and concrete cliffs, with glass elevators zipping up the exterior walls. Its painting would try to encompass not just sight but noise, heat and smell; above all, it would depict movement. To fix this industrial mode in Italian (and European) culture, the pastoral mode...
Tapie is well qualified to discuss the merits of the new French dream. Creator and manager of the holding company Groupe Tapie, which had profits of $45 million on sales of roughly $1 billion in 1985, Tapie was the son of a pipe fitter in the Paris suburb of La Courneuve. As a teenager he helped support his family by hauling burlap sacks of coal. Tapie first went into management consulting, but soon began starting new companies. His first few ventures failed disastrously, but in the late '70s he suddenly discovered his forte: rejuvenating bankrupt businesses. Thanks to his talent...
...airport in full view of TV cameras, reporters and, presumably, drug merchants, U.S. troops needed four days to transport supplies to a base camp north of Trinidad, in Bolivia's lush northeastern Beni region, where most of the coca leaves are processed. "This thing has turned into a bad dream," confessed one Pentagon official...
SOMETHING IS ROTTEN on the island of St. Nicholas and it's not the smell of oil-covered flesh frying in the tropical sun. It's not even the evil machinations of several fatcats planning on buying these unspoiled Caribbean beaches to build their dream highrise resort. What's rotten here is the acting, script and theme all mixed up in a noxious concoction of a movie...
...patronizes their hangout, a reggae bar, owned by a free spirit named Ernest. It just so happens that Ernest's bar also has the best beachfront on the island. And Ernest won't sell to the evil businessmen who want to spoil the island to satisfy their capitalist dream...