Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American dream of owning a home has been taking quite a beating lately, with the price of a new house averaging $100,100. But residents of Florida can dream again, thanks to William J. Levitt, 77. Known as the father of American suburbia for his Levittowns, the master builder constructed huge complexes of inexpensive housing after World War II on the edges of major American cities. Now Levitt is back with a grand new project-a $2 billion community that will go up on the outskirts of Orlando and be called Villa Poinciana. Its 26,000 homes will be priced...
...years back, Columbia Pictures chose to produce Starman instead of a children's movie with a similar theme: E. T. It is easy to see why. This is a fairy tale for adults; the impossible dream realized here is not a cuddly playmate for a lonely boy but the resurrection of love in a life gone sour. Starman's appearance to Jenny is a double shock: he is both the incarnation and a parody of her lost love. He speaks in the tones of a computerized Muppet and moves in twitches, like a punk robot...
...long time ago (1979) in a mythical land (Hollywood), a producer named Robert Evans had a dream: to make a $20 million spectacle about Prohibition-era gangsters operating out of a legendary Harlem nightclub, to cast Al Pacino and Richard Pryor as the stars, and to direct it himself from a screenplay by Mario Puzo. But Evans wanted financial as well as creative control of the film. So he snubbed the studios and went elsewhere for money. He made a deal with an Arab arms merchant but returned the dough. He wooed a bunch of Texas oilmen, but that deal...
Attending the December 3 service by Bishop Desmond Tutu at Memorial Church took me back to two events of my undergraduate years. In 1963, I was part of the August 28 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the famous "I Have a Dream" march. Later that year, Reverend Martin Luther King conducted a Sunday service at Mt. Holyoke College, to which a student friend invited me. I had grown up in North Carolina, but with "Yankee" parents, so, from junior high school on I was able to see the significance of the growing struggle for equality in the South...
...looking at each and every expenditure of the taxpayers' money. Hopefully every sector of the federal budget will feel pressure to save, including defense. The days are over when Congress can treat the American economy like a bottomless pit of resources from which to fund every program imagination can dream up. Ronald Reagan deserves a great deal of credit for putting back into the political agenda the notion that government should be responsive to the electorate, and that the federal budget cannot inevitably acquire a momentum uncontrollable by our elected representatives in Congress...