Word: daydream
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...participant designated by first initial and last name. Towards the bottom was the appellation “M. Simon.” I now know this to be the entry of a forgiving young lady called Maya, but at the time I could scarcely help but lapse into a daydream about former Arizona Wildcats shooting guard and college basketball star Miles Simon. You know the expression “don’t let your imagination get the best of you”? It’s a funny one. Erroneous interpretations of reality, the phrase suggests, proclivities...
...surprise appearance on the album’s resonant closing track, “Broken Arrows,” seems to mark out a kind of elegiac ending to the extended daydream of “Veneer...
...oxen-tough. But now is now and that was then. Then was his shy turn—nine years old, innocent, substantial (“well-fed,” he jokes), vaguely self-aware—the coincidental genesis of a baseball career. That, a foggy Los Angeles daydream, was when Schuyler Mann simply loved the game...
...like to make a very broad summary statement early on that suggests I’ve done the reading, while not requiring me to advance an original argument. After the teaching fellow places a check mark next to my name, I’m in the clear to doodle, daydream, or stare out the window. I’ve observed a similar pattern in most of my classmates, resulting in a dramatic drop in the level of conversation at the end of the hour...
...postrevolution population boom in the '20s that afforded perfectly constructed images of street life, or what the photographer dubbed the "food for my camera." The ordinary soon became the fantastic, as Alvarez Bravo drew reverie from his subjects. He captured the pensive young girl on a balcony in The Daydream, a picture of longing, with the ray of sunlight brushing her shoulder as if singling her out. And Alvarez Bravo even managed to instill life into still life: in Laughing Mannequins, glamorous cardboard women appear smiling, while it's the real people in the image that lack life. The same...