Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Crimson this weekend gave its fans every reason to want to turn out for the Dartmouth game, its dual victories signaling that last Thursday's flat performance (and loss) to a weaker UConn team was but a distant, forgotten dream...
...dream palace, an exuberant art deco fantasy, but year after year fewer people came. Despite its exalted status as a temple of family entertainment and the "Showplace of the Nation," Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall would have closed if a few changes had not been made. And what changes they were! Where Snow White once graced the screen, Madonna has become a queen of the stage. In the hall where the movie King Kong premiered, the closest thing to a horror show these days is a concert by the shockrock group Twisted Sister. In addition to the high-kicking...
Football has turned into a machine dream for most of us. It is a game now played at its most domineering level by impossibly large, improbably rich young men on Sunday afternoons. There may be a chill in the air of a domed stadium, but it derives from the air conditioning and it does not carry the scent of burning leaves. The grass may be greener indoors, but for that we have to thank some faceless chemical conglomerate, not Pops the groundkeeper. And television somehow seems to dehumanize the skills of the players; it turns them into the A-Team...
...country's unrelenting poverty. Thousands mortgaged their lives to secure the money for their boat passage, which often cost as much as $1,500, and many lost loved ones in the often treacherous Caribbean crossing. Once ashore, all but a few failed to realize the legendary American dream. In New York City, where as many as 70,000 ) Haitians live, only 10,000 or so are professionals. A large number are hospital workers, blue-collar laborers and domestics who work long hours and earn low wages. In addition, many are illegal aliens living in constant fear of deportation. Even...
...Mendelssohn's music is merely happy talk. One of the greatest prodigies in musical history, young Felix wrote 13 symphonies for string orchestra before the age of 15 and produced a full-blown work of genius at age 17 in the dazzling, quicksilver Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream, the most successful purely instrumental interpretation of Shakespeare ever written. Yet Mendelssohn had the emotional range to evoke the craggy, forbidding atmosphere of the Hebrides in his "Fingal's Cave" Overture, summon up the combative spirit of the Scottish highlands in his Third Symphony and capture the religious fervor...