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...Mink Branch mine had passed all of its 17 federal and six state inspections; just a few days before Lillie Hamilton's sons blew themselves up, in fact, they had spent eight hours in an MSHA safety seminar. "You still find a terrible fatalism out there," says Joseph Brennan, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association. "An attitude that says, 'This is mining, you have to expect accidents.' " More and more, in dark hollows all over central Appalachia, that fatalism is having disastrous consequences. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Ken Banta/Mink Branch
Gerald Gutierrez's adroit direction prevents the basic plot-line of a jockey's love for an heiress from ever dragging. He adds dimensions to the characters, allowing them to transcend their early 1900s conventions. Goldie Gates, the madcap heiress from San Francisco (Maureen Brennan), trails her love, Johnny Jones (Donny Osmond), across a continent and an ocean, not out of subservience, but from a need to fulfill her own desires. She appears to us as assertive intelligent, and independent...
...McNeely is a model of repressed Edwardian sexuality ready to burst at her ample seams. Her awesome vocal apparatus displayed in "The Voice in My Heart" could not only blow the whole cast of Dreamgirls away but teach them some musical technique as well. Finally as Goldie Gates Maureen Brennan displays a lovely voice, marvelous comic timing, and a delightful ingenue quality...
...about as good a novel as it is a pun. The lives of its four leading characters, Greeley explains in a foreword, are shaded by one or more of the traditional seven cardinal sins (pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth). Greeley follows Patrick Donahue, his friend Kevin Brennan, and the two women in their lives, Ellen Foley and Maureen Cunningham, from a pre-seminary adolescent summer to the slopes of middle age. As a priest, Kevin is a controversial writer and social scientist who bears an unflattering resemblance to the author. Donahue, clearly more fictional, is a cleric...
...Connor will become a clone of the court's leading conservative. They do not expect a pair of "Arizona twins" to develop and to hang together any more consistently than have the now-splintered "Minnesota twins," Burger and Blackmun. Broadly speaking, the court now has two liberals, Brennan and Marshall, in a standoff facing two conservatives, Rehnquist and Burger. The decisions thus often depend on how the other so-called fluid five divide on a given case. And that rarely can be foreseen...