Word: dreamland
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...there still is an American Dream, the State of Texas is the American Dreamland. Here flourish the myths-of slim-hipped, soft-voiced frontiersmen and sky-eyed, sexy gals; of boom town bragging and spaces that are Great and Open; of easy wheeling and cool dealing that turn a fortune at the breakfast table and double it at the barbecue; of a DC-3 on every private airstrip and His and Her Cadillacs in every garage...
...Truk, Yap, Saipan, Koror, Ponape, Majuro . . . The Marshalls, Carolines and Marianas; they could be the names of seven Pekingese dogs and the families who own them. Actually these islands and archipelagoes (comprising 2,134 other islands and atolls) in the Western Pacific sun make up Micronesia-a tractable, tropical dreamland that the U.S. is not quite sure what to do with. They are the spoils of war, won from the Japanese at the cost of thousands of U.S. lives...
Inevitably, while working there, the ever-observant Nabokov kept a roving eye on Hollywood, a dreamland for which Lolita herself used to yearn. The movie colony may be hard put to know what to make of his conclusion: "It is quietest, sweetest, softest place in the world...
...film investigates the lives of six prostitutes who work in "Dreamland," a better-class brothel in Tokyo's notorious Yoshiwara district, and for the most part, the acting is excellent. Machiko Kyo is particularly good. She slips so naturally into lace undies and Americanized manners that she is hard to recognize as the stilted medieval heroine of Rashomon and Gate of Hell. If the story seems repetitive and interminable, so indeed must the life of a prostitute...
...plot entangles the private and professional lives of seven women working at a place called Dreamland. Among them are Mickey, a gum-chewing spend-thrift running away from a sordid home, Yasumi, a loan shark who finally claws her way out of the business, and Yori, a weakling who despises prostitution but cannot stay away. Against a background of neon lights and haunting music, these women suffer, cheat, show flashes of compassion, and dream about escape. One who originally sold herself to support her son goes insane when the son renounces her. Another drives her tubercular husband to suicide...