Word: columbus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jaffe--who produced the Academy Award winning Kramer vs. Kramer, Goodbye Columbus, and Taps--said he was attracted by the human drama in Beth Gutcheon's adaptation of her novel Still Missing, based loosely on the real-life disappearance of Etan Patz. He added that he felt capable of directing this screenplay without worrying about his lack of acting experience because it was straightforward and unpretentious: A middle-class couple, very successful woman and her estranged husband are unexpectedly victimized by their son's disappearance. Instead of making a detective flick in which the main plot focused on the police...
...Ganahl Columbus...
...search for gold that brought the first voyages of discovery to the Caribbean. The intrepid explorers found little gold, but they fell upon a pauper's paradise of emerald seas, swaying palms and scented hillsides. Marveled Nicolo Syllacio, a writer who traveled with Christopher Columbus on his 1493 expedition to the islands of the New World: "The beauty of its mountains and the amenity of its verdure must be seen to be believed." The natural allure remains, but the modern quest...
...world-famous sculptor. Segal almost never accepts commercial commissions but Hoglund thought Segal's "stark and dramatic settings in which the eye is drawn to objects," were perfectly suited to the first Machine of the Year. Segal enthusiastically agreed Hoglund went to Richardson Smith, a design firm in Columbus to create the mock computers portrayed on the cover...
...appropriate that all those who died so far away for their country should be together on what is now the U.S.'s wailing wall. Jesse T. Westburgh Columbus...