Word: andreas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city's only autonomous, institutional safeguard. Boston Mayor Kevin H. White abetted by the Boston City Council, is conducting a subtle campaign to vitiate the finance commission by slashing its budget under the guise of an austerity move. The finance commission, consisting of four volunteers and Chairman Andrea Wasserman Garguilo, whose salary is $5000 a year (the same salary the first chairman received in 1909), has a $121,000 budget to oversee a $630 million government...
Sometimes the desire to avoid sentimentality abolishes sentiment. A wide-eyed Little Orphan Annie is precisely what one expects, but a dry-eyed Little Orphan Annie is a contradiction in terms. Perhaps through the innate temperament of its teen-age star, Andrea McArdle, an aridity of mood pervades Annie. There is no suggestion of a waif in this 14-year-old, who keeps any warmth or vulnerability on a very tight leash. And what, after all, is the strong. affectionate bond between Annie and her dog Sandy except that both are waifs and strays...
...Detroit Symphony. One guest will be Elio Gabbuggiani, mayor of Detroit's "sister city" of Florence, Italy, who was initially refused a visa by U.S. authorities because he is a Communist. With the mayor comes a loan of the priceless bronze Boy with a Dolphin by Renaissance Sculptor Andrea del Verrocchio. The Detroiters had thought that they had the loan of Donatello's David locked up-a sure-fire draw for the new Ren Cen-but the Italian culture ministry said...
From the soaps to Broadway. It's enough to make a girl say "Leapin' lizards." Which is just what Search for Tomorrow's Andrea McArdle, age 13, does in her new role as Little Orphan Annie. The Broadway-bound musical Annie, now playing at Washington's Kennedy Center, also stars Actor Reid Shelton as the magnanimous Daddy Warbucks and Unknown Canine Sandy as Annie's faithful mutt. Making his production debut with the play is Actor and Director Mike Nichols, who saw it in summer stock and was smitten. "It's a sweet show...
April 1 through 3 (the first weekend of spring break), the Radcliffe Women's Center (495-1772) will sponsor the Second Annual Boston Women's Music Festival in Sanders Theater. Here's the lineup: Friday, April 1 at 7 pm you get C.T. and April, Casse Culver and Andrea Weltman; Saturday, April 2 at 7 pm it's Teresa Trull, Hazel Dickens and Holly Near; and Sunday, April 3 at 2 pm you'll hear Willie Tyson, Lucha and Meg Christian. Of these, I have heard only Holly Near, who does fine vocals to piano accompaniment. (Achtung!--the festival...