Word: waterfront
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Graham Haddock, 77, then the Higgins plant superintendent, can still feel the tension of that June morning, even though the waterfront where he used to watch the landing craft take shape is home port to gambling boats and yachts today. "The news of the invasion came about the time we went to work," he recalls. "We wondered whether it was going to work or not. There was no feeling of victory at first. Not until the 10 o'clock radio news did we get confirmation that we had a toehold in Normandy. I got up and marked...
...which owns the Columbia Pictures library, has opened high-tech prototype stores in its Manhattan headquarters that emphasize the parent company's electronic equipment but also feature bibelots from current sitcoms (Seinfeld coffee mugs, Ed Bundy WHY ME? T shirts) and old movies (Three Stooges dolls, an On the Waterfront I COULDA BEEN A CONTENDER sweatshirt). This month, in the same building, the company will unveil Sony Wonder, a free exhibition space with the first permanent interactive movie theater and other beguilements. A London Sony store is in the offing. Bob Wallen, Sony Signatures' senior vice president for licensing...
...President arrived at the dock by boat, "Cantaloop" played over the loudspeaker. The crowd filled the waterfront, adjacent buildings and docked boats, waving American flags and cheering for the President...
...dare the movies be? As film critic David Ehrenstein says, "The entire history of the cinema is about the mass audience forging an emotional identification with people whose experiences are not like theirs. You don't have to be a dockworker to identify with Brando in On the Waterfront or a Southern belle to identify with Scarlett O'Hara. If you create a persuasive character, the audience will come...
...have built a $1 billion stake in southern Florida, primarily in Miami's booming cruise business. The British are the second biggest investors from the Continent. Barclay's Bank regularly finances Washington's grain deals with Russia, not from New York but from Miami. The Germans are snapping up waterfront property along the beach and Biscayne Bay. The mysterious Munich investor Thomas Kramer even has visions of building something between a modern-day Manhattan and a reconstructed Portofino at the tip of Miami Beach...