It may say something about the direction he's going that the most effective piece is a noncollaborative video, "Heartaches and Toothaches," a short, harsh, dream-story of innocence consumed by experience, set to the sound of Ms. Simone singing "House of the Rising Sun".
To evoke "a vanished world, full of harsh realities, dreams, demons and gods" he invented two time-travellers, Martha and James, who reported their experiences of Pompeii, Ephesus and pagan temples in Egypt and Syria.
Unfortunately, reality teaches the harsh lesson that dreams are not always completely fulfilled, but my quest for peace is not dulled, just reshaped.
"In goldenem land" ("In the Golden Land"), for example, is a dialogue between son and mother that gradually reveals the harsh reality behind the dream of an easy life in the United States.
Welcome to the land of dreamy dreams and harsh realities that is New Orleans.
It is a place of big dreams and harsh realities, astounding landscape, curious politics (including a long-standing independence party), midnight summer sun, and shockingly brief winter days.
A judge known for harsh and unjust sentences dreams he is put on trial by a doppelgänger who condemns him to the gallows – is he manifesting repressed guilt, or beset by a supernatural avenger?
* A program in which militants captured by U.S. or allied forces were detained and interrogated either in special U.S. military facilities or in a network of secret CIA prisons, where some were subjected to harsh physical interrogation tactics dreamed up by agency contractors.
But on the day he returned to the United States, the dream encountered a harsh and unexpected reality.
That evening set the tone for the following weeks, as harsh realities intruded into our dream holiday.
Re "Forty Years After a Dream Mile, a Harsh Reality for Track," May 16: I read with interest the article recounting the epic 1971 race between Jim Ryun and Marty Liquori in light of the loss of interest in track and field, and particularly the Millrose Games' planned move from Madison Square Garden to the smaller 168th Street armory.
