Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accomplishment of which I am proud is the opportunity to have realized a vision," Allison says. "I feel very grateful for having had the opportunity to dream a dream, develop a strategy for trying to achieve it, working with an extraordinary group of people and ultimately to have seen the dream largely realized...
Certainly it never does so as fairly as this picture does. Encouraged by his mentor, Leonard's character defies parental and school authority to reach out for his dream (he wants to be an actor, not the doctor his father insists he must become) and finds that it is beyond his emotional grasp. Though director Weir, who is good at unspoken menace (Picnic at Hanging Rock and The Last Wave), has created a subtly dark and claustrophobic atmosphere, the final tragedy is nonetheless somewhat implausible...
Russell Baker has worked for laughs at the solemn New York Times ever since his "Observer" column was established in 1962. For satire, parody and burlesque on short notice, he has few equals. He has had what many journalists would consider a dream career, and nobody tells him what to do. Or so it appears...
...CAAC (China's civil airline), CITIC (China's largest investment company) and PICC (people's insurance company). Held aloft beside them were the ubiquitous signs inscribed sheng yuan (support the students) or HUNGER STRIKE -- NO TO DEEP-FRIED DEMOCRACY. Other signs had a distinctly American provenance. I HAVE A DREAM, said one, echoing Martin Luther King Jr. Another amended the words of Patrick Henry: GIVE ME DEMOCRACY OR GIVE ME DEATH...
Burton, who covered the Philippines as Hong Kong bureau chief from 1982 to 1986, chronicles Cory Aquino's rise to power in Impossible Dream: The Marcoses, The Aquinos, and the Unfinished Revolution, just published by Warner Books. In fact, so many of Burton's colleagues have written books lately that bookstores might consider adding a TIME Authors section. Staff writer Guy Garcia's first novel, Skin Deep (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), tells the story of a Chicano who left the East Los Angeles barrio for Harvard. Contributor Richard Schickel's Schickel on Film (Morrow) is a collection of essays on subjects...