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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always dream of winning," Smith said. "Anvone who wants to do well dreams he'll win a game like that...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: No Doubt About It | 1/24/1986 | See Source »

...underdog story. The David and Goliath story keeps working its way out," says Coles, a true Pats fan. "It's a question of whether to dream and hope the dream comes true or to be a realist and say, 'oh well, they're going to lose...

Author: By Daniel B. Wroblewski, | Title: Watching the Super Bowl: A Constitutional Right | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

...cannot be had in installments. Freedom is indivisible--we have it all or we are not free," said Dr. King. There's no victory without something won. It doesn't matter if you're allowed into the restaurant if you can't pay for the meal. You can't dream if you can't go to sleep, a victim of supply-side insomnia...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Well, Happy Birthday | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

...spend a buck and pass the buck. Inequality was a problem of the sixties. We have other problems now, like what Saab to buy. Or how not to get herpes. Things haven't progressed that much. We can't be fooled by holiday ceremony speeches into believing that the dream has been actualized. Half of Black families live in poverty. Reagan says his administration has helped Blacks. Under Reagan white unemployment fell, Black unemployment rose. Under Reagan white poverty fell, Black poverty rose. The Reagan recovery has been built on the backs of Black workers in the same way Colonial...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Well, Happy Birthday | 1/22/1986 | See Source »

What he nourished there for the decade between writing and shooting Ran was a dream that inevitably obsesses (and generally defeats) most great filmmakers: the creation of a work that realizes cinema's unique capacity for the sweeping epic gesture. The problem in realizing what may be the movie's ideal form is to keep one's balance. Reach too far in one direction, and all you do is bring on the empty horses. Restrain the impulse, and you may only bring forth empty images, beautiful and static. It is on the ground that lies between melodrama and abstraction that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Lesson of the Master Ran | 12/30/1985 | See Source »

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