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Dates: during 1960-1969
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GOODBYE, COLUMBUS. Larry Peerce is a director with a lamentable sense of style and a laudable way with actors. Although his version of Philip Roth's 1959 novella of young love in suburbia sometimes lurches out of control, Richard Benjamin and stunning Newcomer Ali MacGraw save the show with finely shaded performances...
Close associates of Kennedy's meanwhile began to talk about the likely consequences of a death sentence. Civil libertarians might start a campaign to save Sirhan from the gas chamber. Some friends envisioned demonstrations in front of Ted's Senate office or Ethel's Hickory Hill home...
...protest, People's Park seemed largely forgotten. The National Guardsmen who had moved in to save it for the university soon occupied it as a bivouac area. It was still fenced off, and where swings and benches had been, there were Jeeps, trucks, pup tents and latrines...
...approval, however, is a $1 billion dike-protected jetport 35 ft. to 55 ft. below the water level of Lake Michigan and connected to the Loop by six miles of causeway, tunnel and bridge. Says Chicago's Aviation Commissioner William Downes Jr.: "The main objection comes from the save-our-lakefront fraternity who don't realize that an airport six miles out wouldn't be visible from the shore except as a large shadow from high buildings...
Though the end contains a ritual slaughter, it comes too late to save the project. The western is essentially a naive art. When it tries for sophistication it collapses into self-mockery, like a cowpoke dressed by Cardin...