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...protect the rights of fools to express their misguided opinions. The majority of Australians have an innate tendency not to remain silent when the acts of the few impact on the rights of the many. I prefer to think that this is what makes Australia worth celebrating. Kelvin Walsh, Springwood, Australia
...other day, on the anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's death in 1945, I drove over to Hyde Park to look, again, at Springwood, FDR's family estate on the Hudson. What impressed me was its modesty, its homeliness, even its shabbiness here and there. In the upstairs rooms, in FDR's bedroom itself, there lingers an atmosphere of haunting plainness. A bed. A few chairs. A bureau. A primitive version of a telephone hot line installed on the wall near the head of the bed. A few mementos. Down the hall is the dumbwaiter by which FDR hauled himself...
Nice guy, Freddy Krueger. Conceived in a madhouse one weekend when the inmates took their grotesque pleasures with a trapped staff member, this "bastard son of a hundred maniacs" worked as a school janitor in Springwood, U.S.A., where his hobby was kidnaping and murdering teenagers. Tried for these crimes, he was freed on a technicality: "Oh, the lawyers got fat and the judge got famous, but somebody forgot to sign the search warrant in the right place." So the parents of Elm Street tracked the demon down to his boiler room and burned him -- to death, some...
What's really funny is how popular this suburban psychopath has become to the very teens he would menace. Freddy Krueger would never have won the Mr. Congeniality award at Springwood High, but at the box office he has matured into Most Likely to Succeed. As embodied by Actor Robert Englund, he is the star of New Line Cinema's A Nightmare on Elm Street series. Each sequel has outgrossed its predecessor, financially as well as filmically, with the first three installments cadging more than $100 million. And the new entry, A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master...
...structures surveyed by HABS no longer exist, the data on those that still stand can serve as guides to restoration and the formulation of intelligent preservation policies. Only the 41 measured drawings and 57 photos in HABS files, for instance, will make possible an accurate reconstruction of Springwood, the Hyde Park mansion of Franklin D. Roosevelt that suffered severe fire damage last year...