Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important ideological element in American history has been the desperate search for the Big Score, the Real Deal, the pot of gold at the end of the red, white, and blue rainbow. The quest for the material epiphany to the American dream attracts thousands to Hollywood. Las Vegas, Wall Street, and even a ramshackle Wyoming boomtown called Gillette...
...this eponymous town, circa 18.90, come two men hot in pursuit of the dream. Mickey Hollister (John Bottoms), an experienced roughneck going rapidly downhill, and Bobby Nobis (John Stehiln) a young software salesman-turned-cowboy, are after the big paychecks available in the oil boom of the late...
...played them ten games, I don't know how many we'd win," he admitted. "Really and truly, I don't know if we thought this would ever come true. But we did dream it. We dared to." So suddenly the basketball season yielded not one, but two teams of lasting memory...
Hollein has flouted the fetishes of dead-end, blank-box modernism--perhaps out of principle but perhaps also because he could not dream of bridling his ferocious drive to invent and surprise. He seems to create buildings with the spirit other architects might bring to an amusement park. His work at its best is lyrical and joyously jam-packed, smart and sensuous, like a Nabokov story. He believes buildings should even be erotic. In the first of two shops he designed for Schul- lin jewelers in Vienna--a plush, narrow space with an irregular fissure in the gleaming facade...
Siskel (unfastening the clips of his cravatte): "How can you say such things? Just look at the body count for Part 5 alone: 15 normal on--camera hackings, four off--camera carvings of which we only see the results, three dream slicings which we view in all their glory, and three half dicings where we are never sure if the the weapon actually reaches the victims. Over 60 disembowellments and skull-crushings in the first five series. God, Roger, this is the sort of stuff that goes on out there...