Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saturday, balloons filled the field tike sudden blossoms, and the crowd dived headlong into a recurrent dream...
...Texas. A crowd of 20,000, braving 100° temperatures, gathers in a riverside park. The featured speaker leans into the microphone for emphasis: "The national Democratic leadership is going so far left, they've left America." The crowd cheers. "Don't let them bury the American dream in their graveyard of gloom and envy...
This is the city builder's dream turned nightmare. It is the supercity, the megalopolis, infected by a kind of social cancer that is metastasizing out of control. Its afflictions-a mixture of overcrowding, poverty, pollution and corruption-are a warning to all the other great cities, particularly those in the Third World (see following story), but to New York or Los Angeles as well, that what is happening in Mexico City threatens them...
...late September. Earlier this year Honecker allowed 27,182 East Germans to emigrate to the West. The loan accord is viewed as another "goodwill backdrop," in the words of a Western diplomat. A senior aide to Kohl hailed the transaction as the kind of step "we could only dream of years...
...locale (Provincetown, Mass.) that Mailer, a sometime homeowner there, knows as well as the back of his fist. The book also raises questions besides whodunit. Among them: What, if anything, does being male or female mean at this late date in the 20th century? Can the American dream survive , money and luxury? Are the outlaws t or the good guys on the side of immutable law? Mailer has, of course, discussed all of these matters before, in many of his 22 previous books and countless interviews. But he has never sublimated his preoccupations so thoroughly into fuel for engrossing fiction...