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...Hall, the official Bay State beverage is still cranberry juice and in the political realm of the House of Representatives, Thomas W. McGee remains crown prince and dictator at the State House. The 59 year-old ex-Marine from Lynn is still among the most enduring of institutions on Beacon Hill, a man whose iron lock on the legislative process has long gone unrivaled by his elected colleagues. He has held the prestigious job of Speaker of the House for the past eight years--longer than anybody else since the early days of the 19th century. But now, Massachusetts...
BARRETT IS AMONG a daring group of young liberal Democrats who are strenuously campaigning for substantive rules reforms aimed at more than just the downfall of Thomas McGee. They hope to reshape the entire power structure and old-style politics that prevail on Beacon Hill. To that end, they have joined forces with Keverian in his struggle with McGee, despite the fact that for years the former Majority Leader backed the Spealter's opposition to any form of procedural codification. For then reformers, beat on change within the party above all, the cause celebre created by Keverian's challenge...
Painting Churches. The twilight of life, the dawn of senility: Chekhov comes to Beacon Hill in Tina Howe's sweet, zestful off-Broadway comedy...
...there been a singer who dominated the German roles and triumphed in dramatic Italian parts as well. What set Nilsson apart was not only the breadth of her rep ertoire but her vocal command. That famed voice, instantly identifiable, was a cross between a celestial trumpet and lighthouse beacon: blazing, soaring, shining, glowing...
...that sense, it is Flynn rather than King who has assembled a real coalition, rainbow pins to the contrary. King wedded himself to the traditional liberal-intellectual-minority axis in a city that, beyond Back Bay and Beacon Hill, is not known for its progressivism...