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...Montville, N.J., homebuilder Hovnanian Enterprises had barely set up a sales trailer on the site of a planned housing project last month when buyers started lining up. Says spokesman J. Larry Sorsby: "We had no sample homes or models, and we sold the whole thing -- 78 homes -- the first weekend...
...grow or learn, they just get found out. Same, in spades, here. So it is Scorsese's triumph that GoodFellas offers the fastest, sharpest 2 1/2-hr. ride in recent film history. He has said he wanted his picture to have the speed and info overload of a movie trailer. Two great labyrinthine tracking shots -- at a neighborhood bar and the Copacabana -- introduce, with lightning grace, about a million wise guys. Who are they? What are they doing, and who are they doing in? Just to catch all the ambient wit and bustle, you have to see GoodFellas twice...
...Pennsylvania trailer park, a mother of three makes a wish list. She wishes that she lived in a house without wheels. And that she did not have to embarrass her eight-year-old daughter by pulling her out of her brownie troop because the 50 cents-a-meeting fee is too high. That food stamps could be used to buy toilet paper and deodorant. That she could get a real, professional $30 perm, one that would not wreck her hair. That her husband could find a union job, maybe in construction, that paid $6, $7, even $8 an hour. That...
...month, which Al earns making respirators at a local factory. After five years, he is paid $5.68 an hour -- which means that the increase in the minimum wage did him no good at all. Nearly half his take-home salary goes to rent the 12-ft. by 65-ft. trailer he, his wife and three children live in and the lot it sits on; $20 is set aside for the gas he needs to get to the factory. "His working is our livelihood, so that has to come first," says wife Sandy. Electricity runs about $40 a month. The Wellses...
...upstate New York, not far from the infamous Love Canal, you can follow your nose to Forest Glen, a trailer-park settlement built on heaps of foul- smelling hazardous waste that the Environmental Protection Agency says may contain as many as 150 toxic compounds. Under the streets of the densely populated semi-industrial section of Greenpoint, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the Mobil Corp. has begun recovering a sea of oil -- 17 million gals. -- that for decades has been leaking from underground storage tanks and pipelines...