Word: pipedreams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Noodles' back-seat rape of Deborah (Elizabeth McGovern), the only woman he ever loved. But America is, first and last, a European art film that rarely accelerates into the power drive of a slick Hollywood vehicle. Instead it tells its story in the form of a hashish pipedream conjured up by Noodles, slipping back to memories of 1921 and forward to a nightmare of 1968 as whim and reverie possess this gangster on the lam. Leone is less interested in arousing an audience's easier emotions than in presenting, at a dispassionate distance, the horror...
Critics quickly dubbed the Strategic Defensive Initiative "Star Wars." That sobriquet suggested a fantasy-not just a dream, but a pipedream, and a potentially perilous one at that...
...early going made a lavish presentation for '84, by the late-1977 deadline Los Angeles was the sole applicant for the honor. Not just in the U.S.?throughout the world. The only other city thinking of bidding was Tehran. This was the state of the Olympic dream, a pipedream...
...suggested a way of easing this imbalance by diverting the northerly-flowing Pechora River into the Volga, the great river that sustains much of southern Russia. But even in the 1930s, the Stalinist heyday of dam building and hydroelectric construction, the scheme was considered no more than a mammoth pipedream...
...resonance. Whence came the ravaged joys of marriage? How may one survive the illusions of youth and the disenchantments of middle age? Did the dance of life do for me what I did for love? And how may one dance under the pin drift of mechanical Stardust without the pipedream of romance...