Word: daydreaming
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Along the waterfront on a sparkling day, languid groups linger over low-cal drinks, sun themselves by the fountains, read and daydream on shaded benches and fantasize about the grand boats tied up at their feet...
Many a university professor daydreams about someday casting aside his footnotes and writing a splashy novel that will sell zillions of copies and make him rich. Umberto Eco, 57, a bearded and bespectacled professor of semiotics at the University of Bologna, fulfilled exactly that daydream eight years ago, when he concocted his mega-macro-medieval-mystery hit The Name of the Rose. He wrote part of the best seller in a 50-room country retreat near Urbino that he bought and restored himself and where he spends his leisure hours expanding his 40,000-volume collection of antique books...
...ticket by being perceived as an affront to the blacks and progressives who backed Jesse Jackson and by sullying the PAC-free sheen of the squeaky-clean Dukakis. And though he is greatly respected in the corridors of the Capitol, Bentsen does not top the list when people daydream about the ideal President of the United States...
...pledges, like the Emperor's nudity, will be recognized. Unfortunately, we have thus far ostracized the naively honest candidates who tried to force the realization upon us. We can only hope that something less than a genuine economic catastrophe will arouse us from our eight-year-long daydream...
Beyond all this, Miller remains fascinating because he fulfilled an almost universal male daydream: he married Marilyn Monroe. By his account, he savored her wit and beauty but was driven away by her self-abasing craziness; in the end she was pleading for his return, phoning to ask, as if they had not agreed ! to part, "Aren't you coming home?" He adds, "Her voice now had all its old softness and vulnerability, as though nothing at all destructive had happened in the past four years...