Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first kiss, it seems, is a "one-celled organism" that evolves "into something rather grander--a bird of paradise, for example." Falling in love involves "a kind of inward lurch," as if one "were having a dream about falling off a ledge." Adultery, despite its dazzle and heat, gets polished off as "limited doting, restricted thrall...
...clinching article came on Monday about the endowment. Here is Harvard's crowning glory, a $3.5 billion bankroll that represents 10 percent of all money held by colleges in the country and grows so fast the interest could pay off everyone's tuition in a month. Imagine the dream-vision: Harvard, the oldest institution in the United States, made absolutely free to all students. No one, no matter how poor, is intimidated from applying; nearly everyone even remotely qualified tries. Getting in certifies one's standing as the very best the country has to offer. Prestige has never been higher...
...cohort Modai. Negotiator turned money man, and vice versa. Peres will save face by playing tough guy with Modai, Shamir will patch together the coalition until the rotation agreement lands him the premiership this October, Modai will stay in the Cabinet and assume what is said to be his dream job. Everbody's happy. Unless conniving politicos get their way, that...
...journeyman actor," he once said) belied both his professionalism and his artistic versatility. He could portray protean Actor Lon Chaney in the film biography Man of a Thousand Faces as easily as the irascible ship's captain in Mister Roberts. His performance as Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream inspired Director Max Reinhardt to label him the "best actor in Hollywood." White Heat contains a typical bit of Cagney , business, less a trick than a nuance. He had the killer Cody Jarrett sit, for just a second, in his mother's lap. It was a gesture worth pages...
...cinema's best hope for a smart, mature, vulnerable funny woman of the '80s. Mary Tyler Moore carried that standard handsomely through the '70s in a sitcom co-created by Allan Burns, who wrote and directed Just Between Friends. To see them flail here is like running into your dream girl a decade later and finding out she sells Herbalife...