Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That afternoon, while driving around the city, I got pulled over for speeding. Just another episode in the Dream Weekend...
...Soviets have a number of reasons for opposing Star Wars. They are fearful of American technological prowess and they are prone to dote on worst-case scenarios. Reagan's dream of space-based battle stations that could zap missiles out of the sky is a Soviet military planner's nightmare. In order to counter such a U.S. capability, the Soviets would have to expand and overhaul their entire offensive arsenal and probably undertake a huge defensive buildup of their own. The mega-rubles involved would have to be diverted from the nonmilitary sectors of the economy, where Gorbachev faces...
This reputation rests, for Americans, almost wholly on one painting. It was no slight thing to have painted The Sleeping Gypsy, by now perhaps the most famous dream image in Western art. The silhouette of a sniffing lion, with one unwinking yellow eye and a tail stiffly outstretched, its tip erect as though charged with static electricity, quivering like Rousseau's own paintbrush; the swollen, white Melies moon; the black nomad like a toppled statue, her feet with their pink toenails gravely sticking up; the djellaba, with its rippling stripes of coral, Naples yellow, cerulean; and the lute, like...
What we see in this wholly enjoyable show is a painter whose high moments (two owned by Paris' Musee d'Orsay, War and The Snake Charmer; two by MOMA, The Sleeping Gypsy and The Dream; and one by a private collector, The Hungry Lion) must be weighed against a good deal of medium-rate work and potboiling. Enjoyment of the lesser Rousseaus is usually tinged with condescension, though at least they are not cute or kitschy, like the truckloads of pseudonaive painting that would sprout from Montmartre to Haiti after his death. They have their period charm; you have...
Just two seconds short of ten full rounds, a Las Vegas referee ended Bey's dream and Holmes' career. "It's been an exciting career for me," he said. "Let the history books record me, but I think I am a great fighter." So, as boxing understands the term, Holmes is forevermore retired, pending an offer to fight again. "If they pay me right, I'll be back one more time," he agrees, but there seems no one left to fight. After Bey, Bonecrusher Smith and Tim Witherspoon, it is hard to go back to ordinary opponents. Just two more...