Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Filming a familiar tale that appears to be heavily autobiographical, Writer-Director Paul Williams, 25, pays the requisite homage to Truffaut and Welles, not to mention The Graduate and Goodbye, Columbus. The warmth and wit, however, are completely his own. He roots the action firmly in time and place ("Long Island, 1960"), and from the vantage point of a new decade it seems a long and innocent time away. But Williams makes the frustrations of young love agonizingly familiar, the ache of awakening sexuality vivid and true. For pure eroticism, a scene in a beach shower between Paul and Christine...
This country will remain great only as long as all men continue to seek a better life for all our citizens. Unless this nation exists at peace at home and abroad, then the work of Columbus and Vespucci and La Guardia and all the other prominent people of Italian lineage mentioned this morning would be for naught...
...WOULD like to thank you for granting me this opportunity to speak to you this morning. I often conducted the Columbus Day Assembly when I was at Boston Latin School; I realize all the work that has been put into...
...Columbus sailed the ocean blue...
...Columbus and ocean blue...