Until and unless it dies, theater will always be a place where, on a good night, a society can see itself, fears and obsessions made flesh, the future glimpsed in the dark.
Robert watched her and found this moment of marital clairvoyance endearing, more like peering into the past than into the future, glimpsing the lanky girl navigating these social waters.
EVER since various dreamers on the West Side of Manhattan began to envision it, the High Line has signified New York's future: a glimpse of where the metropolis might go if people dreamed, and schemed, hard enough.
She thereby "cheated time, flipping the calendar five or six years into the future" and glimpsing the character she might have played as the 52-year-old mother she would never become.
"Star Trek" has always marvelled at the eccentricities, habits, and feelings of ordinary people, which persist even in a high-tech future; these glimpses of individuality suggest that humanity has become comfortable in its own skin.
These days, I'm the mother of a seven-year-old, and I see the series in light of my son's own unimaginable future, catching glimpses of him in the children on the screen, and hoping for his growing happiness as I've hoped, sometimes seemingly in vain, for theirs.
The future you glimpsed in 90s movies, when everyone's into techno and has slime-green hair, is upon us. .
The future you glimpsed in 1990s movies where everyone's into techno and has slime green hair is upon us.
If only the bleeding, blistered hands and the broken backs of the Bulgarian Empire could have seen into the admittedly very-distant future, and glimpsed upon what the stone turrets and battlements of their medieval fortifications would one day play host to.
The Knicks are said to be dangling Glen Rice and Marcus Camby for Mutombo, willing to part with their future for a glimpse of the past.
