Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...borrowings from Risky Business abound. The theft is evident immediately in the Tangerine Dream style opening score. By the time we hear the "Mannish Boy" of Muddy Waters accompanying the sports car's emergence from the house garage and the Epicurean philosophizing of Curtis Armstrong, who is again teaching his friend how to say "What the fuck," we know we are witnessing full-scale felony...
...plot, like Kabuki, has become stylized. Boy with zits and chutzpah lusts after girl with good complexion. Girl becomes infatuated with Vitalis man, who is dumb but fulfills basic elements of the Eisenhowerera American dream...
...hadn't been for the dream of Fine Arts Professor Seymour Slive, the idea to build a new art museum at Harvard might never have been conceived, but if it hadn't been for the generous support of philanthropist Arthur M. Sackler, Slive's dream would probably never have become reality...
...Kidder simply told the story of Jonathan and Judith, House would be an update of Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House. But as he demonstrated in The Soul of a New Machine (1981), his Pulitzer-prizewinni ng book on the computer industry, the author is a virtuoso of lucid and compelling narrative. Here he gives equal time to client, architect and builders. The result is a three- dimensional view of an activity instinctive to the species, and a subtle examination of cultural and class differences. Architect Bill Rawn's resume, writes Kidder, suggests "the history of a Renaissance...
...late one night, after the party had broken down, he confessed to me that he wanted to be an architect, that he doodled all the time without even knowing it, and that he had a whole dream house stored in his head. He showed me a photo of a little gazebo he had built over the summer. I in turn revealed that I wanted to be a writer, that I wrote compulsively, and that I had daydreams about being on Carson and Letterman. I showed him the unfinished novel that I had tried to write in senior year...