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Lauren Bacall is the pearl in a half-good, half-not-so-good oyster of a musical called Applause. Star quality is supposed to be indefinable, but Bacall helps to define it. Just as one does not have to search for Picasso's signature to recognize a Picasso, so Bacall's work bears the indelible marks of style and self. She owns the stage but wants the earth. A bundle of past struggles, future aspirations and present tensions, she is never in true repose. Her presence is a demand-a lot from others and even more from herself...
...York urbanologist named Paul Davidoff has decided to attack zoning in the courts. His first target is the affluent town of Oyster Bay on Long Island's North Shore, where he is advising the N.A.A.C.P. in preparing a lawsuit. His charge: "Land use control has been used to create a segregated society-one of de jure, not just de facto, segregation...
...Oyster Bay's 360,000 people, only 2,000 are black. Moreover, most of the 1,500 acres of open land in Oyster Bay are zoned for one-or more acre lots, which blacks cannot afford. Though the town has built 96 low-income housing units and has another 213 planned, all but 48 of them are restricted to senior citizens, who have no children for the town to educate. Davidoff and the N.A.A.C.P. would like the zoning changed so that 450 acres could hold single family houses on quarter-acre plots, and 300 acres could serve for multifamily...
...month ago they caught fire. The blaze was snuffed out last week. But as high seas prevented capping the wells, thousands of barrels of brown crude oil started to gush into the water, posing a threat to the Louisiana coast's wildlife refuges and rich oyster beds. Fortunately the slicks blew out to sea, but Hickel said that the Interior Department will hold Chevron liable for any necessary cleanup. In addition, the Government may sue the company for 147 violations of federal offshore drilling regulations. Maximum penalty: $2,000 per day for each violation. Chevron could have...
...viewer feels less a voyeur than an observer of some elemental sexual ritual brought intact from the beginning of the world. To be sure, between such moments, the film proves so personal that it amounts to solipsism. "The pearl," as the director once modestly observed, "is only the oyster's autobiography." Fellini Satyricon, at the end, may even be considered no more than an orgy of self-indulgence. But what a self! And what indulgence...