Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that black people are really here to stay," says Lawyer Paul Boateng, 32, who was an unsuccessful Labor candidate in Britain's last general election. "We regard black people as immigrants who are transients, or potentially transients. White society wants to believe it's all a bad dream-that they will wake up one morning and all the blacks will be gone. Well, it's not going to happen...
...enough to make his homeland seem doubly attractive. "I am homesick," he says. "It's the same thing each year. I save my money, then I spend it all taking my family to Turkey on holiday. I've been back 13 times in 15 years. I dream sometimes of having a business...
Because of the attacks on his wife and daughter-and the fact that the government has refused permission for his mother to immigrate-he is concentrating these days on another dream: a house he is building in his home town of Trabzon, on the Black Sea. "It's large, very large, 3,300 square feet in size," he says, gesturing expansively. "It will be a home big enough...
...Player Paquito D'Rivera soars high on an expatriate dream...
Paquito D'Rivera, 35, may sound like a propagandist's dream, but the bopped-up, romantic, salty and sensuous jazz that he makes recognizes no real political boundary. It has roots equally in the hothouse Latin rhythms of his homeland and in the high-flying horns of Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and Lee Konitz. Adapting them, molding them and memorably melding all these elements has got D'Rivera three solid Columbia albums, of which the most recent, Live at Keystone Korner, is selling nicely, thanks. He has also become a musician whose talents are much in demand...