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...waves of visionaries and scamps who have left their mark on the Sunshine State. "All our lies would turn out to be true," says a veteran developer who bet that dreams of warmth and leisure would prevail over miasmal realities. Florida's first land barons dredged canals and transformed muck into pay dirt. Huge damp swaths of the stuff were then subdivided and merchandised as paradise. Georgia Poet Sidney Lanier was hired to lure frostbitten Northerners with seductive publicity, and William Jennings Bryan was paid $100,000 a year to tout lots in Coral Gables. "Florida," writes Rothchild, "missed that...
...Wilson, a local high school basketball superstar, shocked and disturbed the city. Groups of white thugs have been attacking the homes of black and Hispanic families who dared to live among them. At city hall, the confrontation is more formalized and less violent, but it continues to muck up the municipal machinery: Democratic Boss Edward Vrdolyak and his bloc of 29 city council members, none of whom are black, have only very occasionally suspended their full-tilt feud with Mayor Harold Washington and his bloc of 21, of whom 16 are black...
Finally, while the movie succeeds brilliantly as a children's film, it makes the mistake of occasionally trying to say more. Most of the obstacles facing Atreyu have Phantom Tollbooth-like names such as the Swamp of Sadness--where the muck will suck you in if you can't hold a stiff upper lip and keep the sadness from overcoming...
...year-old Bacchic waterfest--scheduled for April 28--has been characterized in recent years by elaborately designed rafts and even more elaborately designed warfare systems. Last year, projectiles included pineapples, eggs, watermelons, dead fish and rats, and dredged-up muck from the Charles River floor...
...Morrow. All of this high-sticking will be settled before the opening ceremonies, because the U.S. and Canada cannot wait that long to have at each other. They play the night before. Around the perimeter of the village, distant sentries are stationed, some sinking unobtrusively into the muck. Machine-gun-toting guards, so familiar now at world occasions, are omnipresent here, along with airport-style X-ray equipment. Moran says, "The athletes are hoping they don't have 'blanket detectors.' " Souvenir hunters are eyeing the covers. Bedding in Sarajevo is more brilliant than housing. But the homes...