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Artists' Lives--Geoffrey Koetsch; The Art institute of Boston, 700 Beacon St., Boston...
...fact, as Reynolds walks the streets of New York and through Central Park in his black trenchcoat, carrying a brief case and the morning paper, he seems just as he was in Starting Over, when he frequented the brick sidewalks of Beacon Street and perused the wares of Quincy Market in a brown London Fog. This is not to say, however, that Paternity equals the successes of Starting Over. Though the new film is enjoyable, inventive, occasionally very funny and emotionally-arousing, Starting Over was all that and much more so. Paternity suffers for lack of the romantic electricity that...
...seat in decades. But he had an issue--"we pulled absenteeism on rollcalls on Serrino, cause he had missed quite a few over the years"--and he had energy. "We worked damn hard." Sullivan says, and it paid off when he won a two-year trip to Beacon Hill, a tenure marked by a controversy over the Provincetown steamship franchise and the opportunity, which Sullivan took, to back Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill for speaker of the Massachusetts House...
...Bostonians who still cared gathered on Beacon Hill. There had been many more the night Bobby Sands died--more than 100 at one point, walking in a circle that stretched well down the street. That night there had been some hope; people talked about longshoremen refusing to unload British ships, and remembered how 200,000 Bostonians had marched when Terence McSwiney. Lord Mayor of Cork, starved in the 1920's. It's only a matter of time, they were saying. But they knew better, or should have...
...Beacon Hill, the circle grows a little bit, as a few more come to hold signs. 'Brits Out of Ireland.' They're bitter, these men, bitter enough that it pleases them to hear of the wave of riots plaguing England. And bitter they should be, for all the marching, and all the courage of Martin Hurson and Joe McDonnell, and all the weight of justice, does not seem to be getting their cause anywhere...