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Plum Island. Perhaps the state's most idyllic beach, Plum Island is across the bay from Crane Beach. Plum Island beach is actually known as Parker River Wildlife Reservation, and only 50 cars are allowed inside the reservation. Admission is free and open to the public, but Plum Island is most frequented by ornithologists, and they are inconspicuous in the bushes. It is one of the few beaches in the Bay State where you will really be alone with blueberries, bayberry bushes, mild surf and miles of beach. Good seafood and eating "in the rough" nearby...
Director Ridley Scott stretches the movie out with assorted idiotic red herrings, the crew taking time out battling the monster to look for the ship's pet cat, Jonesy. As for the undulating ectoplasm known as the alien, you wonder why the crew isn't wearing lobster bibs. Somebody clearly had a good time putting it together--pouring on the blood, slime, and animal intestines--but the fun as all his. Actually, in its last scene the alien does exude a little personality, curled up in the corner of a space shuttle cleaning itself off, smacking its lips, coming...
...such a thing as a foolproof movie, Escape from Alcatraz must be it. Throw together Clint Eastwood, an airtight jailbreak plot, a first-rate storyteller like Director Don Siegel ... and what could possibly go wrong? As it happens, almost nothing. True, Escape from Alcatraz embraces virtually every cliché known to prison movies. Eastwood does not exactly break new ground as an actor either. Yet this film's familiarity ends by breeding affection rather than contempt. When an old-fashioned genre piece is executed with spirit, audiences can rediscover the simple, classic pleasures of moviegoing...
This surprising moral treatise concerns a historical episode little known in the West in which the Japanese, having learned to make and use firearms, thereupon set those skills aside for 200 years. Portuguese sailors brought the first matchlocks to Japan in 1543, and within a few years the Japanese were using their own much improved models with bloody effectiveness. A nationwide revulsion then occurred, not because of the bloodiness, notes Perrin - Japan was one of the most bellicose countries on earth - but because guns gave common soldiers the means to kill noble samurai. By the time Commodore Perry forced...
...scandal-tainted ex-mayor James Michael Curley in the elections of 1938. Saltonstall's cautious, plodding but scrupulous administration did much to restore Bay State confidence in elected officials, and, after being twice re-elected Governor, he moved on to the Senate. As Senator, "Old Lev" was known for his reticence ("No comment, and that's off the record"), ability to reconcile House and Senate differences, and unfailing dedication to the folks back home. He was ranking Republican on the powerful Senate Appropriations and Armed Services committees when he retired in 1967, to tend the cows and chickens...