Word: waterfront
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hallock, 63, even wrote home admiringly about him to her sister in New York. With the help of Luis, 33, she and Joseph A. Michel, 70, saw everything-from the thrilling high dives of bronzed young natives off the towering sea cliffs to the intriguing low dives along the waterfront. Luis arranged a midnight yacht trip for the happy couple, even brought along the pretty hotel cashier to liven up the party. Wearing silly sailor hats, the laughing foursome cruised over to visit a nightclub on nearby La Roqueta Island...
...YORK, Feb. 13--The second dock strike in three months today held tight grip on Atlantic ports from Maine to Virginia. Mile upon mile of busy waterfront subsided to almost ghostlike silence...
...Greene's book, Hollywood Director Joe Mankiewicz was having trouble. He searched all the roads for miles around Saigon, could find not a single guard tower. Most towers have been dismantled; the rest have fallen into dilapidated ruins (Mankiewicz had to order one built). Greene's scruffy waterfront slum had also disappeared; Mankiewicz had to rebuild its shacks and dirty up the streets before he could begin filming...
...barnacle-encrusted boss (since 1936) of the right-wing A.F.L. Sailors' Union of the Pacific, and president since 1955 of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. Maritime Trades Department; of a heart attack; in Burlingame. Calif. Tattooed, Norwegian-born Harry Lundeberg never ducked a waterfront strike or a dock brawl, feuded for years with the West Coast longshoremen's left-wing Boss Harry Bridges (and once got a smashed jaw from a C.I.O.-swung baseball bat), had an old syndicalist's hatred of both Communists and capitalists ("Squeeze the shipowners . . . make them lose dough...
...score for the movie On the Waterfront, some critics heard a new note in Bernstein's music, a curiously piercing purity that seemed to burst from a hot core of originality. Extravert Bernstein needs the outside inspiration of a theme, a script, a plot to be at his best ? which suggests that he is at his best in the musical theater. "I am the logical man," Bernstein himself has said, "to write the great American opera...