Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Krantz sure knows how to dash a childhood dream. He is editor of The Jobs Rated Almanac (World Almanac; $14.95), a new book ranking 250 professions by such criteria as salary, security, stress, outlook and work conditions. Krantz downgrades jobs that look best to kids, putting garbage collector (No. 226) ahead of dancer (240), football player (241) and cowboy (242). Last on the list: migrant farm worker (250). At No. 1 is a job that few children even know about: actuary...
ARIA. Assign ten directors to work daft magic on ten of opera's greatest hits, and the result is this beguiling pastiche of long-haired "videos." Ken Russell wins top prize for his Turandotty dream sequence...
David and Harriet's dream begins to crumble. Never really self-sufficient, they are not able to deal with the intrusion of the unusual child and the ramifications of his existence. They send Ben away to an institution, but Harriet is unable to leave her child to die with strangers...
...legend at the start of George Lucas' new epic. Surely it was. We speak not only of the dour Middle Ages in which this sword-and-sorcery film is set but of the late 1980s, when Lucasfilm hit its dark age, after nearly a decade as the most profitable dream-mongering empire in movie history. By 1984 Lucas had produced five of the eight all-time top grossers. But that was a long time ago, in a land far, far away. Lucas' fantasies went murky (Labyrinth) or smirky (Howard the Duck), and his empire suddenly looked as frail as King...
There are hundreds of writers waiting in varying stages of despair for their phone to ring. They dream of giving interviews, being summoned to lionizing appearances and literary lunches. A reviewing assignment would be welcome; a request to blurb a fellow author's new book would not go unconsidered. But life is unfair. Those who have get, and those who could get sometimes choose not to. Like J.D. Salinger, who has spent most of his 69 years ducking the sort of publicity that most authors would kill...