Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Before the lecture, Minter showed a 26-minute video entitled "Killing a Dream." The film focused on the South African government's support of RENAMO, the Mozambican resistance organization which Minter said terrorizes rural Mozambique in order to topple the nation's government. The film included candid footage of Mozambican villagers who had been multilated by RENAMO's armed supporters...
...question-and-answer session after the film, Samuel Levy, who identified himself as a former correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor and the Wall Street Journal in Mozambique, said that "Killing a Dream" was itself a piece of "disinformation...
Appelfeld's prose has the quality of light sleep, an uneasy alertness in which the past is like a fading dream ("Nothing was left of those dark days except twitches, remnants of nightmares, grimaces, and scraps of words") and the present a sudden, painful awareness: "In the next room Rosa and Bridget were still sleeping. The windows of the apartment were closed, and the heavy throbbing of their sleep could be felt even in the kitchen. Their forgotten existence awoke inside him for a moment and then passed away." Of such mortal moments is the immortal Bartfuss made and remembered...
...done better. In fact, he does better right here. Occasionally Jake drops without warning into a dream state: a wedding ceremony where he repeats a vow to love, honor and provide credit cards; a Saturday-morning vision of all the power mowers on the block coming together in a Busby Berkeley musical number. These sequences have an attacking spirit and a sheer joy in moviemaking that the rest of the enterprise desperately needs...
...still, Information is no substitute for pages of directory listings packed with offices, services and facilities that I, for one, didn't even know existed. Most undergraduates wouldn't dream of asking the operator for facilities ranging from computer assistance to environmental safety that dot the pages of the University directory...