Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wait a minute. Isn't this 1985, a good three years before the next Republican presidential convention? Yes, but some politicians believe that it is never too early to slap a back in pursuit of a dream. So there was George Bush, just back from an eleven-day official trip to Europe, ensconced in a reviewing stand in Bristol, N.H., in the state that just happens to hold the country's first presidential primary. Congressman Jack Kemp skipped the family barbecue in upstate New York to be in Iowa, traditionally the site of the nation's first party caucuses. After...
...drive is there already, four on the floor, nonstop. "I dream for a living," Spielberg explains. "Once a month the sky falls on my head, I come to, and I see another movie I want to make. Sometimes I think I've got ball bearings for brains; these ideas are slipping and sliding across each other all the time. My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going...
...fateful day when this movie-mad child got close to his Hollywood dream came in the summer of 1965, when 17-year-old Steven, visiting his cousins in Canoga Park, took the studio tour of Universal Pictures. "The tram wasn't stopping at the sound stages," Steven says. "So during a bathroom break I snuck away and wandered over there, just watching. I met a man who asked what I was doing, and I told him my story. Instead of calling the guards to throw me off the lot, he talked with me for about an hour. His name...
Like most of the other immigrant moguls, Mayer achieved the American dream without becoming a homogenized American. By parading their unregenerate Yiddish accents and their careful malapropisms, the studio bosses were implying that their success came from street smarts acquired on the Lower East Side and further back, in the shtetls of Eastern Europe; it took a ragman to become a Hollywood rajah. "They had grown up," wrote Film Historian Carlos Clarens, "in a trade where samples could be smelled, fingered and felt; they recognized craft when they saw it, and they respected it; rather than hoodwink the customer, they...
...rearing four children got interested in politics. Kunin started by lobbying in favor of Medicare and went on to serve three terms in the Vermont house of representatives and two terms as Lieutenant Governor before being elected Governor on her second try in 1984. "My mother lived the American dream for her children. My political views, my whole inspiration to be in politics, was strongly affected by that experience. When your life is influenced by war, once you have the knowledge that political decisions can be a matter of life and death, then you don't want to accept those...