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Although BU administrators have allowed the party's planners to use a college gym instead of the planned site of Bay State Road, organizers of the May Day bash are upset with the city's decision...

Author: By Mark A. Hurwitz, | Title: Students Upset With Decision To Rescind BU Party Permit | 4/29/1982 | See Source »

PRINCETON, N.J.--The new wave band Squeeze, currently riding the success of its hit "Tempted," will play at the annual Princeton spring bash on April 29, The Daily Princetonian reported recently...

Author: By James S. Mcguire, | Title: Squeeze Band | 4/17/1982 | See Source »

...last part, titled Widows and Children First!, is both the best and the worst. It takes place five years later. Alan has been killed in a "fag bash," an attack on homosexuals by macho punks; Ed has finally split from Laurel; and Arnold is in the process of adopting a gay teen-ager (Matthew Broderick). Add to that a visit from Mrs. Beckoff (Estelle Getty), the ultimate Jewish mother, and Fierstein has enough material for another three-acter. He has in fact perhaps too much to handle-or too little sense of structure to handle it well. He seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Straight Talk | 2/22/1982 | See Source »

...next test of O'Neill's viability will come tonight, when his father returns from Washington to help raise funds. Even if the bash succeeds in drawing big money, it probably won't be sufficient to put the campaign in the black...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: O'Neill Needs Cause, Supporters | 2/16/1982 | See Source »

...Quincy Market gets reflects a problem with O'Neill's campaign that cuts deeper than the discouraging numbers; the bash has been billed as featuring Tommy's dad, Speaker of the U.S. House. More than King of Dukakis, Tommy O'Neill's main adversary is his image as a political lightweight. To many observers, his election and re-election to the state's second highest office stemmed more from his name than his record. And even his supporters admit it was no coincidence that his major accomplishment in office--channeling federal funds to Massachusetts--came just when his father assumed...

Author: By Jacob M. Schlesinger, | Title: Tommy's Crunch | 2/13/1982 | See Source »

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