Word: dolphin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sawgrass's success is spurring local imitators: Dolphin Mall, a quick taxi ride from the airport, plans to open in 1999 with a roller coaster and other attractions. A Dolphin developer marveled that American Airlines has had to bring in extra cargo planes at times to carry the overflow goods of booty-laden visitors flying home after visits to Sawgrass...
...similar clothing on the young men and began to wonder about them. After dropping off his passenger, he drove back to the spot. The men had left, but he took a careful look around. "I went down to the sea," he says, "and saw something that looked like a dolphin or a submarine. I was certain it wasn't a fishing boat, so I reported it to the police...
...carrying her volleyball to the biology classes she taught and training in the school's long- jump pit because it was the only local sand. "I knew something had to give," she says. Her studies have lost out for now, but as a reminder, she sports tattoos of a dolphin and a wolf, along with her trademark Grateful Dead tie-dyed headbands. And when beach life gets too hot, she goes camping on her 40-acre retreat in Colorado...
...this sort of elegiac kids' film, sex is verboten--except in the relationship of the boy and his dolphin, silhouetted like lovers against the setting sun. Sandy has one underwater swimming-and-petting scene with Flipper that may be the most sensuous movie aquacade since Brooke Shields and Chris Atkins went skinny-dipping in The Blue Lagoon. Yet for all the cornography, Flipper has its tugs and charms. This modest movie is about not much more than teaching kids to care for animals and, occasionally, for grownups...
...dolphin has the best part. As operated by animatronics ace Walt Conti, Flipper is a cool dude. He moonwalks on water and gets great vertical extension on his leaps. And with his soulful stare and plangent "voice," Flipper has a star movie animal's emotional intensity. He gives good heart...