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...Waterfront. At Lehman Hall, Friday and Saturday...
Says Democrat William Hughes, who represents a South Jersey waterfront district in the House: "The legislation and procedures being put in place are going to expedite development and minimize litigation. The states and communities will not be looking to the courts because their concerns are being addressed." If so, the only important question remaining is whether there really is oil out there...
...well worth the price of admission. Beethoven and Napoleon materialize, as do Concord coaches, corduroy roads and a fully outfitted Mississippi River steamboat. With a few judicious details as props, Gavin creates palpable illusions of scenes 150 years old. Schlumberger and a companion stalk the New York waterfront at night: "Now and then they entered the nimbus of a gas lamp hovering just over their heads like a phosphorescing sea creature. Schlumberger heard the sinister hiss behind the glass. One pace beyond the lamp his shadow was squeezing from under his heel squat as a dwarf, and four strides later...
...after the disastrous 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, according to Moyers. Its mission: to destroy the Cuban economy and assassinate Castro. Over the years, while the Miami police, the FBI and the Coast Guard looked the other way, tens of thousands of commando groups set sail from "safe" Miami waterfront homes for Cuba. Some of the group still in Miami were responsible for Watergate crimes; others continue to pursue an unofficial campaign of anti-Castro terrorism today. That campaign has included a number of recent bombings, both in and out of the U.S., and a bomb explosion...
...streets like Rocky did," observes Sylvester. "But this guy was born to be a champion." F.I.S.T. appealed to Stallone because of its "solid foundation." The story, he says, "has bones." Director Norman Jewison thinks it has another plus: a touch of that great Brando blockbuster On the Waterfront...