Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...place in Kiev at Kiev State University. The program there consisted of discussions, formal events and touring. The format of the official roundtable dialogues was somewhat imposing. We convened around a large table, and each student was given a microphone. Topics of discussion ranged from conceptions of "The American Dream" to the issue of privileged universities and from nationalty problems to family life and personal habits. At first we were distrustful, and the Soviets undoubtedly were as well. We did not know whether these students had been been chosen because of their uncritical devotion to the Soviet system, because their...
Jackson and his supporters have made the current election a referendum on racism, and have argued that a vote not cast for Jesse Jackson is a vote against civil rights, a vote against Martin Luther King's dream. But a far better test of America's progress in race relations is how the media and the political establishment treat a substantive, credible black candidate. So far, they have not lived up to that dream...
MARIO PUZO'S THE FORTUNATE PILGRIM (NBC, beginning April 3, 9 p.m. EST). In a mini-series spanning nearly 30 years, Sophia Loren plays the stalwart matriarch of an Italian-immigrant family in pursuit of the American dream...
...this is Redfordland, and Milagro is a dream of liberal community. The developers, timid villains in a modern range war, are no match for the villagers. Here comes Ruby (Sonia Braga), the local La Pasionaria, bustling with petitions and '60s rhetoric. Sheriff Bernie (Ruben Blades, who exudes sly star quality) keeps tamping down the hot tempers of the villagers and the Anglos. And Amarante (Carlos Riquelme) fights the scourge with flaming arrows, fish heads and ancient curses. He even fires his pistol at an intruder and drives the developers' bulldozer over a cliff -- though no one in this gossipy town...
...your hearty compatriots intoxicated to the point of complete helplessness while on the beach, and then covering his or her face and chest with various lewd witticisms in sunblock. Party games like this coupled with the requisite amount of beer-guzzling and sun-worshipping, and you will have a dream vacation which will only cost your self respect, $300, and five-eighths of your functional grey matter...