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...city's main north-south thoroughfare. Next, moving harborward, came I.M. Pei's 28-story World Trade Center. It was accompanied by a long-needed Convention Center and the Maryland Science Center, where visitors are encouraged to touch exhibits, push buttons, pull levers and turn wheels. Also on the waterfront, a music tent called the Outdoor Concert...
...There are still some nice buildings going up," the Foreign Car Driver said, trying to hop from first to third since second didn't work on Sundays. "Take a look at the Waterfront, and down around South Station...
...chief focus of the camp is on computers. In three daily 90-minute sessions, beginners study BASIC and introductory programming; more advanced students take courses in robotics, graphics and computer-generated speech. During free time-once used to watch snakes eat frogs or to flirt with the waterfront counselors -campers play games on any of the 42 Atari, Apple, Texas Instruments and Commodore home computers...
...Director Ernst Lubitsch and the Marx brothers. Yet, by his mid-40s he had flamed out. His son began in movies by collaborating with an alcoholic writer named F. Scott Fitzgerald (whom he later commemorated in the novel The Disenchanted) and wrote several film classics, including On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd. Today neither Benjamin Percival ("B.P.") Schulberg nor his son Budd is precisely a household-or Hollywood-name. But that odd obscurity is what lends Budd's memoir Moving Pictures its poignance and fascination...
Nonetheless, he can still inspirit his city. He wavered on school busing but stood fast on racial harmony; after a welter of racially motivated assaults in 1976, he led a march of 30,000 people to protest violence. During his tenure, Boston has rebuilt its downtown and waterfront, added thousands of hotel rooms and sold itself, accurately, as "the livable city." Faneuil Hall Marketplace is the ultimate urban mall...