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Local businessmen clearly were not happy with last night's decision. Charles P. Laverty of the Cambridge Chamber of Commerce, said that the $33.12 tax rate for commercial property approved will be the highest in Massachusetts when Newton finishes its revaluation...

Author: By Catherine L. Schmidt, | Title: Council Sets Varied Rate For Revalued Property | 12/6/1983 | See Source »

However, it is fair to say that Saturdays had been bleak for some time (three winning seasons in 21 years) before Devaney arrived in 1962. Unlike Osborne, he did not have to learn how to smile. On a wall of Devaney's office, now the chamber of the athletic director, two tattered hobos are in conference, and one is saying, ". . . then we lost our sixth to Keen State...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Nebraska, Plainly | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...rise, on top, or tobogganing toward his destiny, Tony is always the same: a ruthless, fearless, utterly amoral slug. Insert him in the chamber of a .45 and he will blast off into your enemies. Cross him and cross yourself; he will perform your last rites just for fun. His swaggering sense of invulnerability first earns him a role as gorilla soldier in the army of Frank Lopez (Robert Loggia), a car and drug dealer. In the class structure of Sunbelt crime, Frank is the middle-class middle man, tangling fatally with both the coke aristocracy of Bolivia and Tony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Say Good Night to the Bad Guy | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...body politic, without stopping more than once or twice to spell out social message. The new Scarface is at bottom a bitter comedy about the perils of drug abuse, and De Palma directs his actors to play at the pitch of gross grandiosity but at the pace of a chamber drama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Say Good Night to the Bad Guy | 12/5/1983 | See Source »

...leaving a wife and two young children. The parents' first anxiety developed even before the funeral Mass began: many of the worshipers entered the nave with cries of joy, and the celebrant, Father Paul Dalton, was clad in festive mod vestments. The rite began like a Chamber of Commerce luncheon, as worshipers were urged to introduce themselves. In his homily, Dalton reported that as the husband lay dying, it was the wife, not the priest, who anointed him with sacramental oil. At the Communion, both Catholics and non-Catholics went forward to receive the consecrated bread and wine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Checking Up on Dutch | 11/28/1983 | See Source »

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