Word: vision
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though sudden, the explosion of tabloid shows should not be surprising. There is no reason why TV should not have its own version of the New York Daily News or even the National Enquirer, alongside World News Tonight and The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour. "I see myself as an alternative vision," says Rivera, "not one dictated by the suits on Sixth Avenue ((Manhattan's network row))." Although his antics often seem self-aggrandizing and overwrought, Geraldo finds the TV universe is big enough...
What matters in this new off-Broadway collaboration by writer Craig Lucas and director Norman Rene (Three Postcards) is not the literal truth but the beguilingly hallucinatory fashion in which one vision blends into another. In an age when absurdism is yesteryear's avant-garde, a handful of American playwrights work this rowdy territory. Only Lucas and Rene understand how to make something beautiful out of a dream walking...
...Lesniks, a small tribe of hunter-gatherers, have been conquered by a marauding band of Poles, whose leader, Krol Rudy, wants to establish an agricultural base to feed his vision of a unified Polish nation. Those Lesniks who escaped the butchery of the invasion hide in the neighboring mountains, gathering strength for a counterattack. But Cybula, their elder, receives a peace offering. Cybula has his doubts, not only about his enemy's intentions but about the new way of life posed by the prospect of tilling the fields: "It was not necessary to tickle and scratch Mother Earth to make...
...consider: What kind of morning would electing the liberal governor of Massachusetts bring? Will it be gloomy?" Bush asked. "Will the dark clouds of pessimism and limited possibility obscure our vision...
Walking home down Arrow St., we saw a peculiar vision. A man with 25 white straws stuck in his dark curly hair grabbed hold of Julie and tried to kiss her. She broke away as the kiss landed on her jawbone...