Word: coves
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...acre chunk of land. And -- hallelujah! -- the river, which most New Yorkers rarely glimpse, has been given back to the people, as Battery Park City embraces the wide and wonderful Hudson. The shore has been beribboned by a sculpture-studded esplanade, a mile-long stroll leading to the South Cove. There, grasses and boulders are untamed, as the riverbank might have been when Indians apprehensively watched approaching sails. Says Sally-Jane Heit, an actress-writer who was a 1982 "pioneer" in the first apartment tower: "It's a fantasy world, a sculpted cutout. You sit there and listen...
...heart of the $4 billion development is the plaza, the great outdoor living room for personal pursuits and free performances. The plaza encompasses North Cove Yacht Harbor, which can berth 26 megayachts. "This harbor is ecologically pure," says developer George Nicholson of Watermark Associates. "Until now, berthing a yacht in New York was like parking your Picasso in the cellar...
Salvage crews pumped compressed air into the $125 million ship and floated it off Bligh Reef, 25 miles from the port of Valdez. From there, it began a 30-mile journey under the control of six tugs to a remote cove off Naked Island for temporary repairs, picking its way through scattered icebergs...
...19th century hero of this seafaring novel finally completes a laborious journey from England to New South Wales. In transit, Edmund Talbot grows weary of "this seemingly endless voyage"; safely ashore at Sydney Cove, he marvels that he has been at sea for nearly a year. In fact, the trip has taken much longer than that. William Golding first shoved Talbot off dry land in Rites of Passage (1980), which went on to win the Booker Prize, Britain's most coveted award for fiction. After receiving the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1983, the author got back to Talbot...
Reisz says the meetings "provide a cove in the midst of the stream of life where people can pull into and have a restful place to gain perspective with others who are also going through turmoil. It is a place of healing...