Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Performing three plays simultaneously is, according to Rauch, "the actor's and director's ultimate dream and night-mare...
...takes a little longer to get back," he apologizes. "You have to retrieve your sled." In the '60s, before he weighed 210 lbs., when he was a pretty handy 6-ft. 1-in. basketball player, Tucker thought of trying out for the Puerto Rican Olympic basketball team. But dreams, like pounds, like years, slip by faster than luge racers flip from their sleds. Finally last year, he says, "I got the name of the president of the Puerto Rican Olympic Committee out of the New York Times. They sent me a beret. The rest of my opening ceremonies uniform...
...just records the charming confluence of circumstances and skill that made him one of the most admired, imitated and influential writers of his time. After graduating from college, White took odd jobs in journalism, advertising and public relations. He was, in retrospect, simply waiting for Harold Ross to dream up The New Yorker. Nine weeks after the inaugural issue appeared in February 1925, the first of thousands of White contributions graced its pages. When he was invited to join the magazine's staff, his interviewer was Ross's assistant, Katharine Angell. She was seven years older than White...
...reach him appears to be through his castoff, pregnant girlfriend, who has taken refuge under Arnie's mostly paternal wing. Arnie cannot keep faith with the past without summoning up its burdens. These arrive one day in the form of a familiar family hunting for a dream house along the gulf: Lex Graham, the ambitious colleague who undermined Arnie at the university; Lex's sleek wife, who is eager to resume the affair she and Arnie once conducted; and Lex's cherished daughter, a high school belle who has reached just the right age to have...
Harmony is the wan hope of age, the last dream to which it may reasonably aspire. Virtuosity is callow youth's callous expectation, the ambition toward which its bursting energy and blustering strength heedlessly compel it. That is why, dearly as they may love their offspring, parents of prodigies are so happy to see them off to college and career. May they achieve their hearts' desires - but please, God, on their own time...