Word: brighton
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...council voted 5-4 not to allow a vote on the permanent ban, proposed by councilor Raymond Flynn after a recent attempt by a Brighton landlord to evict tenants in a large apartment complex...
Several hundred tenants--many of them from Towne Estates in Brighton, which a developer is trying to turn into a condominium--attended the meeting, cheering when Flynn introduced his order and hissing the councilors who spoke against...
...with the same grit and humor that he brings to the film's social canvas. The hero has too many stereotypical conflicts with his overly villainous parents and employers; there are too many scenes that try to convey his sensitivity by showing him brooding on the beach at Brighton. The film's final section, a long chain of cathartic crises, is contrived. Still, Phil Daniels, as Jimmy, is both appealingly quirky and a good double for Who Guitarist Pete Townshend. Daniels also has two funny and touching sex scenes. When Jimmy masturbates solemnly at home and later makes...
Ramon Bueno Brighton, Mass...
...election, gentrification will have expanded from Back Bay, the Fenway and the South End to the original streetcar suburbs--Charlestown, Brighton, Ashmont Hill and Jamaica Plain. More and more rising young professionals, children of affluence, born in VA-and FHA-financed suburbs, are opting for the brick townhouses instead of housing tracts and the Southeast Expressway traffic, and re-shaping the city with their Cuisinart, Volvo and exposed brick style...