Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fernandez was living in a dream--a dream shared by millions of children across the nation. At the age of 18, he was already being paid to play the game he loved...
...Fernandez didn't allow himself to get engulfed in that dream. Instead, he enrolled at the University of Miami and currently plays for the nation's second-ranked team...
Fernandez postponed his dream of pitching in the majors, just as Harvard's Lane MacDonald and Allen Bourbeau postponed their dreams of playing professional hockey for one year to graduate from Harvard...and lead the Crimson to a national championship...
...wavers as he portrays Lee's elaborately constructed facade of scummy, violent toughness. Lee is a hardened pioneer--one never doubts his stories of adventure in the American desert, the "true" West of this play's title. Yet behind his belching, swaggering bravado, Norman allows Lee's well-concealed dream of respectability and acceptance to leak through his psychological defenses...
What the medieval silk-and-spice caravans were to Western Europe, Flight 30 is to Soviet consumers today. The few who can afford the 1,762-ruble ($2,800) round-trip ticket gain an opportunity to outfit their homes with otherwise unavailable dream goods. The Soviet government, which officially frowns on such lavish spending of hard currency, limits how many rubles its citizens can change into dollars for their trip (7 rubles, or $11.20, a day). But they manage to raise the cash. A favored scheme is to carry jewelry to sell...