Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cigarette manufacturer's dream: a market where the laws do not require harsh health warnings on package labels or no-smoking sections in restaurants, and where 250 million people each puff an average of half a pack...
...Reynolds Tobacco, the dream has come true in an agreement signed last week in Peking. The pact calls for Reynolds and China to contribute $10 million each to set up a joint venture that will build a factory in the southern Chinese city of Xiamen and produce the first Sino-American cigarette. The new brand, as yet unnamed, will be a blend of American and Chinese tobaccos. Lester Pullen, president of Reynolds' international tobacco division, admitted that the cigarette must be good to satisfy Chinese smokers. Said he: "In their tastes, the Chinese are comparable to Europeans, especially...
Reynolds and Chinese officials are exploring a possible future deal involving one of the company's other products: Kentucky Fried Chicken. For Reynolds executives, that prospect conjures up another dream, in which 1 billion Chinese lick their fingers after sampling Colonel Sanders' spicy recipe...
...making of the picture kept being put off, and the stockbroker's son from Yakima, Wash., held on to his dream of playing Paul Atreides, the charismatic messiah of the Dune pentalogy...
...time that John Belushi finally bought it, in the winter of 1982, he had already made a considerable and enthusiastic investment in his own destruction. He had also bought, whole, every sorry, second-rate dream of success that American pop culture has to offer: the performer as outlaw, the outlaw as sha man; self-immolation as the fulfillment of a creative spirit that burns too hot to contain or understand; drugs as recreation, revelation and social challenge, a turn-on for talent, a tip sheet for personal apocalypse. He died, really, of the cumulative effects not only of the cocaine...