Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basement of the White House by people who are not confirmed and do not testify. These folks use the CIA as their representatives and executors abroad. Congress has little control over it. I wish foreign policy could move back to the State Department, but it's a dream, only a dream...
...remained at the forefront of the world peace movement, creating a "nuclear free" zone, appointing a public peace commissioner, setting up sister cities with urban centers in other nations and most recently banning research on nerve gas. Despite the city's best efforts, however multi-national brotherhood remains a dream...
...playwright's intentions remain obscure. Leslie Glass writes dialogue as absurd as a cross between lonesco and "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," but the one-liners and hilarious situations lead nowhere. As a satire on the American family, the play never succeeds on the level of Albee's American Dream although the relentless reinforcement of American stereotypes leads us to expect as much. But for black comedy Strokes can't be beaten...
...worthwhile job in new ways. That is, in part, because more than a generation ago Arthur Miller invented an American dreamer named Willy Loman, put him in a play called Death of a Salesman, and invited us to watch him and his false, almost comic, near-to-tragic dream unravel...
...real." Miller's people are first-and second-generation Americans who have yet to achieve a perfect-pitch imitation of standard American brag, bluff and bluster; their language is thus a precise and moving metaphorical expression of the uneasiness with which they live in the American dream they have not quite assimilated. By touching this language with the accents of Brooklyn's old ethnic neighborhoods, this company simultaneously grounds the dialogue in the reality that formed Miller and his play, and grants his rhetoric, at last, the full weight, color and, yes, poetic power one sensed was waiting...