Word: parkes
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Since June 1, Union Summer activists have fanned out to 20 cities. Paid a stipend of $210 a week, they are given free housing: an East Boston, Massachusetts, convent; a Chicago youth hostel; a Beaufort, South Carolina, trailer park. They are joining protesting sewage-plant workers in Denver; demonstrating against unfair labor practices on riverboat casinos in St. Louis, Missouri; pressuring a Washington department store to stop buying suits made in sweatshops; offering legal advice to strawberry pickers in Watsonville, California. They are picketing beach hotels in Hilton Head, South Carolina; knocking on doors in Boston to organize hospital workers...
These Olympians, or rather their virtual realities, are part of the show in Coca-Cola Olympic City at Centennial Olympic Park, the not-yet-completed plaza that the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (A.C.O.G.) hopes will be the meeting place for what one official calls "the largest peacetime gathering of humanity in the history of humanity." Be that as it may, 2 million will descend upon Atlanta next week for the 100th anniversary of the Olympics, and they are entitled to ask, "Is Atlanta ready...
...feel. The President, as played by Pullman inspiringly develops from Mr. Smith into J.F.K. Will Smith, as Captain Hitler, brings out the comic potential of fighter-pilot bravado when confronted by a threat so ludicrously daunting as a space invasion. And, exercising the techno-babble he learned in "Jurassic Park," Jeff Goldblum staves off the humorous bickering of his worrying father (Judd Hirsch) to save the world with the scientist's explain-it-all manner...
...after seeing the 1956 Invasion of the Body Snatchers as a lad. "In a way, thinking about the terror a good movie could provoke made me want to be a film critic." Since 1980 he has been that at TIME, also reviewing theater, music, sports and the occasional theme park. He keeps an open mind on alien autopsies and abductions. His wife Mary, though, is a believer in editorial abductions, especially on those late nights when Corliss is in his TIME office, staring at a blank computer screen with that familiar dreadful thrill...
That's one side of Manhattan's quality of life, and until you can arrest people for hostility, it's not going to change. But there's also a flip side, and I got to see it this week, in Bryant Park. This two-block patch of green is the backyard of the New York Public Library, sitting serenely at one of the most famous and bloodthirsty intersections in the world, 42nd Street and 5th Avenue. Every Monday night in the summer, they show a movie on a giant outdoor screen; the show begins at sundown, about...