Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wouldn't dream of answering that one," says perennial professorial favorite Donald H. Fleming, Trumbull Professor of American History. Fleming, who teaches courses on European and American intellectual history in alternate years, is known among students for both interesting voice inflection and what students often refer to as the "charm" of his lectures...
More likely, happiness is going from movie to movie or, better yet, staying home to slip those little dream sandwiches into the VCR. Thomson plays to this explosion in film culture in much the way that Jorge Luis Borges ingratiates bibliophiles by writing fantasies about books. One good unreality deserves another...
...there were a competition for indelible images, this simple homage to Truffaut would be matched only by the sustained audience applause that greeted the final shot of Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, another critical favorite. A young wife, her dream of eloping with a movie idol crushed, finds another dream born while gazing raptly at another wonderful picture. For the few privileged moments when Truffaut and Allen occupied center screen, Cannes declared that the film industry is only on loan to the merchants. It belongs, first and finally, to the magicians...
...print more good news? This question assumes that reporters get a kick out of reporting the bad, have some political motive for doing so or know that sensationalism sells papers. Journalism answers testily: Do you want to avert your eyes from reality and live in a dream world? We have to report the good...
...based Civilian Military Assistance, headed by Tom Posey, an ex-Marine, who claims to get his funds from private citizens. F.D.N. officers say that Posey's men are instructing contra units in the use of recently acquired surface-to-air missiles. Posey denies it. Says he: "Where did they dream that...