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...natural assignment for Cook, since he was the first to chart large areas of the Pacific (among his discoveries: New Zealand, the New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Easter Island). Trouble was that the Navy had retired Cook from sea duty last year and made him a captain of the Greenwich Hospital for pensioned sailors, a sinecure that pays ?230 a year, as well as a free suite of rooms, firewood and candles. But Cook, still only 47, was restless. To a friend he confided: "A few months ago, the whole southern hemisphere was hardly big enough...
...same problems plague this early effort by Brian de Palma. Robert De Niro plays a young filmmaker in Greenwich Village who becomes involved with a group of black actors from the "living theatre." The group invites white audiences to experience "being black," then terrorizes them. The guilty whites exit from the nightmare proclaiming how interesting the evening was--now they really know what it's like to be black in America. De Niro is alright here, certainly better than Jack Nicholson was in his one major comic role (The Fortune), but one leaves with the impression intact that De Niro...
...came to the U.S. (TIME, Feb. 10, 1975) to see for the first time her ailing natural father, retired Rear Admiral Jackson R. Tate, a Moscow-based naval attache during World War II, and Frederick Pouy, 38, Pan American World Airways pilot: their first child, a son; in Greenwich, Conn...
Roberts, who hails from Greenwich, Conn., started playing tennis at the age of 12 with her mother, another tennis buff...
...history of science. In exhaustive--and exhausting--detail, we follow Skinner through a curious childhood and a lonely, almost morose, adolescence in a drab Pennsylvania town. Skinner recounts Kollege Kid pranks and personality molding teachers at Hamilton College, a year as a struggling writer, and a bohemian period in Greenwich Village...