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Word: dreaming (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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There's nothing so special and so distinctive about the Beanpot Tournament as its emphasis on the positives of sport; the players are there to have fun, in a great old tradition-filled building, with the chance to dream perchance that one day they may return proudly clad in the sweater of a professional team...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Beanpot '86: A Boston Hockey Tradition Continues | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...short, the chance to taste for 120 precious minutes the dream they have lived...

Author: By Nick Wurf, | Title: Beanpot '86: A Boston Hockey Tradition Continues | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...exchange for the few minutes it takes to write a brief self-description, what qualities you desire in a partner, and $16.50--"a small risk for a great gain," according to the ad--Schramm will try to "unite you with your dream mate...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: College Romance' for Students | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...idea, and I kind of started it late," said the Kansas City, Mo. native, explaining his project's low popularity. He said, though, that in attempting to unite "dream mates" he would pass out 30,000 flyers at Boston-area schools, such as Fisher Junior College and the Berklee School of Music, which do not have newspapers in which to advertise...

Author: By James E. Schwartz, | Title: College Romance' for Students | 2/3/1986 | See Source »

...novel. As Mister's household begins to disintegrate under the combined influence of Shug and Celie, the movie increasingly degenerates into cheap sentimentality. Celie learns that Nettie and her own two children by her father are living as missionaries in Africa. As a result, we are treated to dream sequences of elephants crashing through the fields of Georgia. This is one of the film's most colossal flaws: whenever Spielberg has trouble interpreting the text, he slips into the trademark Raidersesque exoticism and trick camera shots-gimmickery which has made him famous but which destroys the tone of the story...

Author: By Jeff Chase, | Title: The Color Too Purple | 1/31/1986 | See Source »

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