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...result, the poisons have turned up in surprising places. Not far from home plate at New York City's Shea Stadium, a festering pond containing PCB, toluene, benzene and DDT turns red, blue or green as the mixture of the waste changes. The mess is so flammable that the pool has caught fire twice in the past year. In the marshes around New Jersey's Meadowlands sports complex, home of the pro football Giants, some 200 tons of mercury residues have contaminated Berry's Creek, causing Selikoff to declare, "On a bad day, breathing in the Meadowlands...
...drama puts a complacent middle-aging priest, Father Tim Farley (Milo O'Shea), in sometimes stormy but under-lyingly tender conflict with an ardent, rebellious and idealistic seminarian, Mark Dolson (Eric Roberts). In its simplest terms, this is the perennial skirmish between youth and age, between those who have seen too little and those who have seen too much, between those who want to change the world radically and those who have made their abject peace with principalities and powers...
Linking the two men ever closer as mentor and student, surrogate father and son, brothers in Christ, Playwright Davis fashions a glowing parable on the indivisibility of love. At the apex of his craft, O'Shea could enter an actor's Hall of Fame with this one performance. Mettlesome, high-strung, bursting into a boy's wounded tears or unlaced laughter, Roberts' Mark is a worthy foil. But perhaps the most exciting find of the evening is the directorial debut of Actress Geraldine Fitzgerald. Subtly and surely, she weaves a mantle of sentiment without sentimentality...
...height of the fire, were still too high for investigators to begin looking into what had caused the initial explosions. No sooner had the blaze been brought under control than New York officials began worrying about a similar site in Staten Island and another less than a mile from Shea Stadium in Queens. "We are," said one New York environmental official, "sitting on a chemical powder keg and watching the fuse burn...
Maybe these guys have a point. Katzner says he got 2000 signatures at Shea yesterday, and that's probably more than the number of people who were there...