Word: hawaiian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...architecture that has no pretension to being heroic. He implies that there is nothing to be learned from these self-conscious monuments to good taste. Rather he looks to the more low-brow, eclectic architecture of the strip as a source of style. Not pure Bauhaus but Bauhaus Hawaiian, Yamasaki-Bernini, and International...
...shares with his grandfather in Philadelphia when summoned to Atlantic City by his brother Jason's telegram, "Get your ass down here. The Kingdom is come." The "Kingdom" turns out to be but a revived version of a boyhood fantasy: to take over Tiki island, one of the Hawaiian archipelago, build a casino and amass a fast fortune. The Staebler brothers spend the rest of the film trying to subsidize the dream. Meanwhile they live precariously, like Vegas princes in seamy unpaid-for hotel rooms. Jason (Bruce Dera), keeps a harem of two, Sally (Ellen Burstyn), a juicy tart past...
...sound like one of Eugene O'Neill's drummers. David, ever skeptical, eventually lets himself be suckered in, more to demonstrate a kind of desperate solidarity with his brother than anything else. The scheme is an old Staebler fantasy: take over an island called Tiki in the Hawaiian archipelago, build a casino, rake in the bucks...
FAVORITE DRINK: Hawaiian-Gator-Drivers (Hawaiian Punch, Gatorade, and Boris Gutanoff Vodka...
Holt's favorite target on the freshman team last year, Pat McInally, was once again on the receiving end of most of the Hawaiian native's bullet passes McInally who has height, great hands, and (at least against bad defensive backs) terrific moves, left the hapless Brown secondary in the chrt with us catches for 114 yards and two touchdowns...