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Often, the dream is to fly: on skis (The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner) or in an airship (The White Diamond) or in a U.S. Navy plane (Little Dieter Needs to Fly). That last film--about a German boy who arrived in America with the dream of flying, flew missions over Vietnam, was captured and tortured, and escaped--had so much natural drama that Herzog turned it into a "real" movie, Rescue Dawn, with Christian Bale as Dieter...
When designer Elie Tahari landed in New York City at age 19 in 1971, he had $300 in his pocket and couldn't read English. After a "miserable" childhood spent in an Israeli orphanage, Tahari had only one dream, and that was the Big Apple--as he had seen it in the movies. With a plane ticket provided free by one of his brothers, then an airline employee, Tahari landed determined to make money...
Critics have painted groups like SLAM as small bands of wild-eyed idealists getting together in rooms to dream up their next cause or campaign. Yet activists do not wake up one morning and decide that workers need a raise or a union, or that Coca-Cola and McDonald’s are evil. Nor do we demonstrate, march, take over stages, go on hunger strikes, or occupy university buildings because we feel like...
...fathers of medieval archeology,” said McCormick, “This is the very beginning.” Carver, a self-proclaimed “roving digger,” said he is fascinated by the unusual site and its cross-disciplinary appeal. “My dream was to make of the Middle Ages what has so successfully made of the Classics,” he said. “I like the idea of the people being what we focus...
...preferred by America. But anyone familiar with what Israel, with U.S. backing, is doing in the West Bank and Gaza will see Palestinian support for Hamas as a natural reaction. The belief that Palestinian minds will be changed by increasing their suffering through a financial blockade is a pipe dream. Yet that appears to be the focus of U.S. policy towards the Palestinians...