Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...known Louis B. Mayer, Jack Warner, Harry Cohn and their ilk. There is plenty of rowdy entertainment here. But there is also unsentimental sympathy for these East European Jews who, barred by prejudice from the genteel, gentile Establishment, created a patriarchy that was in its way more potent. The dream America that they placed on the screen -- an epic, colossal megafiction -- in time redefined the American dream for everyone. That empire of their own thus became a mighty colonial power in the world of ideas. Not only does Gabler restore to these pioneers their full, fractious humanity, but he also...
...Super Tuesday was created in the South to give such a candidate a boost. There was even talk for a while of "Atari Democrats," managerial types who would forget past labels and leap into the next creative age of Government-inspired technology. Democrats, while trying to build their dream candidate, were unconsciously fashioning that Frankenstein's monster of "competence" and computer-friendly conduct, Michael Dukakis...
...deficit will be inexorable. A combination of new user fees, tax-rate adjustments and other masking devices is the likely route Bush will take around his no-new-tax campaign pledge. Richard Darman's first job if he becomes Office of Management and Budget Director will be to dream up a fresh euphemism for tax increases to replace the "revenue enhancers" of the early Reagan days...
Thompson acknowledges the impact film had on his youth, saying, "There's no describing now the effect that Easy Rider had on us kids. It was really powerful....The Graduate is every college graduate's dream." One sees the influence of these films in 1969, whose two main characters have the timely posters from these films on their walls...
Fratto describes this opportunity to do "Evita" on the Mainstage in terms that make it seem like a dream come true. "I've always loved the music from this show, and when I saw a badly done production of it years ago I decided that I wanted to do it," he says...