Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...incandescent moments in living memory. Facing a throng of 250,000 on the capital Mall, with the Washington Monument soaring before him and the white marble figure of Abraham Lincoln brooding behind him, Martin Luther King Jr. turned mere spectacle into a kind of national epiphany. "I have a dream today," he declared. And again, "I have a dream today." And again. He used the words as more than refrain, more than cadence, almost as biblical exhortation. And as his listeners cheered him more loudly each time he repeated them, King built toward his stirring peroration: "When we allow freedom...
...short of two decades after that electrifying moment, a throng almost as large assembled in the same spot. The participants were there partly in commemoration, to mark a day and a speech and an idea that had changed America forever, and partly in fresh complaint, to push for dreams that remain unfulfilled. The second March on Washington was thus both an opportunity to measure the sometimes astonishing distances the nation has traveled on the road to racial equality and a time to ponder its new and less certain agenda for the future. King's long-stilled eloquence was missing...
...dream was there, the fire was not. The reprise had a forced quality, as if the participants had been jaded by all the marches and speeches of the intervening two decades. Billed as a "March for Jobs, Peace and Freedom," the gathering marshaled proponents of a bewildering variety of causes and organizations, from environmentalists to advocates of a nuclear freeze to gay-rights lobbyists...
...truck driver's vehicle was a lawn chair supported by 42 helium weather balloons, which he popped, one by one, with an air gun when he decided to land. He was fined $1,500 by the Federal Aviation Administration, but despite that said he had carried out the dream of a lifetime...
...film follows closely) creative license and a clean slate. Daniel is, after all, the story not only of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, but also of their children Daniel and Susan and their attempts to understand and revive what the film's press notes describe as the Isaacsons' "dream of social justice...