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Almost 400 years after Columbus sailed the ocean blue, the actual site of his arrival in the new world is still a subject of hot debate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Columbus Landing Debated | 10/15/1985 | See Source »

...decapitates his toy soldiers. There is Max's snug bedroom, where he is commanded to repair without supper after his mother (Mezzo Mary King) loses patience with his antics. Just as in the book, the room blossoms into an enchanted forest and is, in turn, transformed into a broad ocean upon which floats a bark named Max that takes the boy to the volcanic land of the Wild Things. Even the smoke-snorting sea monster that pops up from the waves to terrorize Max makes an onstage appearance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Mastering the Wild Things | 10/14/1985 | See Source »

...what the land surrounds makes Guantanamo golden. The harbor is deep and wide, suitable for a myriad of ocean-going vessels. This was evident long before the war with the Spanish, and the entire area was one of the first concessions demanded by Washington during the peace negotiations. The Navy's held it ever since...

Author: By Paul W. Green, | Title: Maintaining a Unique Balance | 10/5/1985 | See Source »

...UNKNOWN ACTOR scurries across a northern California beach. He's playing Jack Kerouac. But this supposedly athletic-looking Beatnik writer is thin and clumsy. He ends up ditching the beach after narrowly escaping a mound of dirt that plummets into the ocean...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Drab Documentary Misses the Beat | 10/2/1985 | See Source »

...They tell me he went up to Memphis, and he ate a mess of fish, and he drank an ocean of whiskey, and he died, just keeled on over. Fish and whiskey. Who'd of thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Alabama: a Coon Dog Indeed | 9/30/1985 | See Source »

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