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...Concord Art Gallery at 82 Charles St. on Beacon Hill is showing the works of a man named John Ulbricht and his wife, Angela Von Neuman. Ulbricht has the distinction of being President Ford's portrait artist. I remember hearing that Betty Ford's portrait was sent back by the White House curator for being disproportionally larger than those of other first ladies...
White's traditional support came from the liberal communities of Back Bay and Beacon Hill, the black community off Roxbury, and from East Boston, while Timility showed strength in the anti-busing neighborhoods of South Boston, Hyde Park and Dorchester...
...never bothered with college). Violet Lang's family passed their desperate faithfulness to Boston on to her--the city and the decaying four-story brownstone they live in were the only reminders of their genteel past. In line with the family's tradition, she flirted with high society on Beacon Hill and avoided steady jobs. She was also a writer and an actress, which prompted her to associate with members of the academic set in Cambridge--who were trying pretty hard to show that they knew how to encourage and appreciate unstructured yet creative minds. But Lang never had much...
...presence as Wenceslas, the schoolmaster whose ward Hasty tries unsuccessfully to seduce, almost revives the play near the beginning of the second act, though eventually he too gets bogged down in the inanity of the dialogue. First congratulating the castrated Hasty ("A deed like this can make you a beacon of the school system," he says) and then scornfully branding him a "capon," Weinstein does manage to infuse the play with whatever sense of menace it finally conveys. Emily Apter is also fine in the stereotypical part of the teasing ingenue, and Lorenzo Mariano is sufficiently otherworldly as Squint...
...everybody watching it, this unreal, disappointing show? Because people are curious and Beacon Hill has gotten more publicity than any other show of the new season. Because Upstairs, Downstairs has a lot of fans and people were hoping for some sort of good show to forestall withdrawal symptoms until the English show starts again in January. And because TV is a holding medium--a form of recreation for tired minds who don't demand very much in the way of truth...