Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Vlada Petric, the director of the Harvard Film Archives, said that the idea of bringing Josephson to Harvard grew out of his "Film and Dreams" course, which includes a detailed study of dream sequences in Bergman films, such as "Hour of the Wolf," in which Josephson stars...
...story about integration, Waters has aptly miscegenated two irreconcilable movie genres: the teen flick and the message movie. He has invaded John Hughes territory, but with his own road map. No Molly Ringwald needed; Lake is the dream image of every girl who has ever craved that eighth Twinkie. No teen realism here, just a romp through the pastel homes and matching mother-daughter outfits of a more naive era. No anxious parental conflict, at least when Tracy's mom is played by Divine, the 300-lb. actor who always looks the height of fashion in a housedress...
...which dream? Damon Runyon did not write stories about office workers. The would-be master builders of Times Square seem to be ignoring the lessons learned in scores of American cities during the past two decades, where downtown neighborhoods were ripped apart wholesale as a way to "renew" them. In almost every instance where a cluster of high-rise office towers replaces smaller commercial buildings, a kind of dead zone results. Street life becomes a daylight affair. "Look at 8 o'clock at night on Sixth Avenue," says Actress Colleen Dewhurst, an antidevelopment activist, alluding to the dreary wall...
...redevelop 42nd Street. A few blocks away, on the northern side of Times Square, demolition is nearly complete on half a dozen other high-rise sites. Says Vincent Tese, the head of New York State's Urban Development Corporation and the man in charge of the ambitious plan: "The dream is about to become a reality...
Levy said that the problems in that country do not all stem from South African intervention. Levy said that he had observed popular distrust of the Mozambique government's plans for collectivization and suggested that the mutilations shown in "Killing a Dream" might just as well have been "inside jobs" as the work of RENAMO guerillas...