Word: dreams
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Just after World War II, Crosby gave him one of the first Ampex tape recorders. It helped stoke in Paul the familiar dream of a trailblazing artist: to put on wax the music in his head. What emerged, in 1948, with the two-sided hit "Lover" and "Brazil," was something he called the New Sound. It comprised several tracks of brisk, intricate guitar work meticulously laid on top of one another; if he made a mistake with the final track, he had to start over again. The New Sound, which he refined in a later home studio in Mahwah...
Making a living as an architect has never been an easy proposition. Very expensive schooling is generally followed by years of laboring under another architect for slave wages - all in the hopes that one day a devastatingly rich patron will fund the dream building. But with the economy grinding along in second gear, billings have plummeted and even prominent designers, from Frank Gehry to Norman Foster, have been forced to downsize staff and shut offices - which means that a lot of people in the field are finding themselves watching daytime TV. There is, however, one architecture-related business that...
...they felt protected because the added planes - best known for flying generals and White House officials around the globe - also carry lawmakers on them approximately 15% of the time. And they do so amid comforts that most Americans who endure long security lines and cramped economy cabins could only dream about. (See the Top 10 Most Expensive Military Planes...
...four children to live under the same roof with the family she'd chosen for them. President Nicolas Sarkozy hosted Picat and her kids - Julie, 12; Thibault, 9; Matthieu, 5; and Margot, 3 - at the Elysée. The family was invited to Disneyland Paris for Christmas - a longtime dream that had been put on hold due to lack of funds. (See pictures of Sarkozy celebrating Bastille...
...sided to an extreme and paradoxical degree. On the one hand, we are sober and practical and commonsensical, but on the other hand, we are wild and crazy speculators. The full-blown amateur spirit derives from this same paradox. Even as we indulge our native chutzpah - Live the dream! To hell with the naysayers! - as a practical matter, it also requires a profound humility, since the amateur must throw himself into situations where he's uncertain and even ignorant, and therefore obliged to figure out new ways of seeing problems and fresh ways of solving them. At this particular American...