Word: waterfronts
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...Harborwalk is a blue painted line that will take you from the Old State House to museums and landmarks along the Boston waterfront including the Children's Museum, the New England Aquarium (T: Aquarium, on the Blue Line) and the Boston Tea Party Ship...
Such a victory would mark an unconventional, if modest, political comeback for Brown, now 60. In 1995, after three failed bids for the presidency, he sold his mansion in San Francisco's posh Pacific Heights and moved across the bay to Oakland's gritty waterfront. There he started up We the People, a nonprofit community center for grass-roots activism, and hectored his old rival Bill Clinton and other politicians on a national radio call-in show. Last fall, to the horror of other would-be mayors, he announced his candidacy...
...postwar generation's previously inarticulate disgust with American blandness and dishonesty, its struggles to speak its truest feelings, are powered by that rough ambivalence. The rage and self-pity of his grievously wounded paraplegic in The Men, the rebel angel of The Wild One, above all On the Waterfront's Terry Malloy, the dock walloper struggling for transcendence--these roles informed our aching hearts at the time, and go on tearing at us when we re-encounter them...
...Detroit from 1974 to 1993; of respiratory and heart problems; in Detroit. The ex-World War II Tuskegee Airman became one of the first black mayors of a major U.S. city. Blunt and upbeat, he integrated the police and fire departments and tried to spur development of the waterfront with construction of the huge Renaissance Center. The Motor City, however, continued its decline during his tenure, as its population shrank and crime remained high...
...Ellen Mayeron, manager of the waterfront Mucky Duck restaurant on Captiva Island, off southwest Florida's Gulf Coast, on yesterday's end of the official hurricane season. Because of less windy conditions over the Atlantic, just three hurricanes blew in this season, compared with the annual average...