Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...same sime, the Students Afro-American Society (SAS) was protesting a university proposal to build a gymnasium in a public park in the predominantly Black community of Morningside Heights...
...community, who contracts AIDS through a blood transfusion and then passes it on to his devoted wife, the two of them ending up frightened and alone in a huge medical center, reading The Magic Mountain to each other. Or Vickie, the chattery, brawling woman from the trailer park who gets infected by her husband and comes at last to feel that AIDS has given her a purpose in her life, as she signs up to be a nurse...
...course, it can. This time Axel is investigating a gang of counterfeiters operating out of an L.A. theme park, meant to suggest Disneyland. The mystery is minimal, just an excuse to get everybody on the rides. Steven E. de Souza's script is not so much written as constructed -- boom boom here, bang bang there. John Landis' direction consists mostly of just running the camera...
...Stark, a California Democrat, put it, "looting the forest, meeting monthly interest payments by cutting thousand-year-old trees." Is there a moral issue here? A Maxxam spokesman dismisses the question, saying, "Our position is that sufficient redwoods are protected and that our trees are private property." (Redwood National Park, 50 miles to the north, has 38,000 acres of ancient redwoods...
...home, with its views over Central Park, she was the very antithesis of the manipulative New York hostess. When she invited a lot of people, which did not happen often, a vast and equable good humor made its way throughout the company. She could make everyone among them feel that the evening was crowned by their arrival, and she also had a great flair for the unexpected guest...