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...federal home improvement grants, the purchase of a $250,000 town house by two top White assistants for $1 in 1981, the activities of a fundraising committee formed six months after the aborted birthday party, a $10,3000 payment by the mayor's campaign committee to renovate his Beacon Hill townhouse, and the cashing of retirement and disability pension checks mailed to at least 12 dead city employees...
...artist in question is Mags (short for Margaret) Church. She lives in Manhattan and is about to have a one-woman show at a 57th Street gallery. With pride and belated affection, she visits her patrician parents on Boston's Beacon Hill. The house, which has been sold, greets Mags like a bare, ruined choir of lamentation. The great vaulting windows are naked, the marble fireplace mantelpiece is shrouded, and the living room floor is scattered with empty packing cartons. In the direst exodus of their lives, Fanny (Marian Seldes) and Gardner Church (Donald Moffat) are retreating, year-round...
Brooks and his group gather every other Friday night to picket the Sack Beacon Hill cinema, asking customers to boycott Sack theaters for that evening. Their grievance: Many of Boston's Sack theaters, which carry all the most popular first-run films, are inaccessible to people in wheelchairs, on braces, or otherwise disabled...
...Sack Beacon Hill theater is the most glaring example Disabled people can see movies there only if they are carried down a long and perilously steep flight of stairs, an experience they find terrifying and humiliating. To make matters worse, exclusive engagements are often shown at the Beacon Hill rathe than at one of the area's few accessible movie houses. Members of Brooks's group point out that even films of special interest to the disabled, such as Coming Home and Whose Life Is It Anyway?, have been inaccessibly screened...
Besides their obvious cruelty, such remarks needlessly block the possibility of compromise. Even in theaters where renovations leading to complete access would be costly or architecturally difficult, negotiations might well lead to a workable middle ground. At the Beacon Hill, for example, architects estimate that installing an elevator is prohibitively expensive, but handicapped groups say a chairlift next to the stairs would cost much less...