Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although legislation was introduced in Congress last fall, so far the campaign for a hard dollar remains a shiny dream. "We're talking strictly public inertia," admits Jim Benfield, a lobbyist for the Coin Coalition, which includes copper interests and convenience stores. About half a billion of the last dollar-coin attempt, the forlorn Susan B. Anthony dollar that was issued eight years ago, collect dust in vaults across the country...
Those over the age of 30 carry much of 1968 in the memory, an indelible collage of photographs, television footage, private scenes of where-I-was- when-I-heard-the-news. A year as graphic as an afternoon dream...
...television ad campaign, sponsoring candidate debates in Iowa that are beamed by satellite to other states, holding workshops for activists and organizing mass mailings that will hit a million households by Election Day. In doing so, it has made the sanctity of Social Security and the expensive dream of Government-sponsored long-term health care top issues on the 1988 agenda...
...enough to be amused by the notion of antique plastic, you are old enough for Radios: The Golden Age, by Philip Collins (Chronicle; 119 pages; $25, $14.95 paper), an exaltation of those portable Emersons, Motorolas and Sonoras that fulfilled the American dream of bringing news and entertainment to every room of the house. Collins, an executive with Columbia Pictures and collector of highly stylized receivers of the '30s, '40s and '50s, has produced the nostalgic sleeper of the season. The photographs glow with a warmth and color that make one forget how often these little bijoux of popular culture were...
...glass slipper. "Why should I be nervous?" she recalls thinking as she walked into a Manhattan hotel suite to meet Jim Brooks and Bill Hurt. "There was no way in hell I was going to get this role." Within moments, Brooks thought otherwise. "She read her part like a dream," he says. "No, wait, I'm building legends here. She read better than a dream. She read like a gifted actress." And once this non-star got the part, she assumed a control and drive worthy of Jane. "The best thing in her is that Holly never questioned that this...