Word: pipedreams
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Deliberation Day may yet amount to just another ivory tower pipedream, but it’s already begun to generate considerable interest. Last Saturday PBS sponsored a trial run in 17 cities across the country. And tomorrow night the network will air a documentary special on the project...
...that American troops and administrators will have to remain in harm’s way longer than what would be politically convenient for the president. But it’s time for Bush to start doing what’s right instead of continuing to live in a neoconservative pipedream...
...have had its drawbacks, but it would also have been in the best interests of Harvard undergraduates. Sadly, such a move was never really feasible in today’s environment at Harvard—and there are better things to do than bemoan the loss of a curricular pipedream...
...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...