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...hours of work, arranges weddings in the $10,000-to-$35,000 range. "If someone tells me they have $8,000 to spend," she says, "I tell them to take a picnic." Peggy Leary, who runs a catering business called Ruffles & Flourishes in Boston's blue-collar Charlestown area, reports that the traditional--and pricey--sit-down dinner is being replaced by a cocktail reception that features "heavy hors d'oeuvres." The prospect of a weighty canape is daunting enough, but Stephen Elmont, head of Boston's Creative Gourmet, likes to talk about "food stations. People are in motion...
Nielson referred the News Office to Charlestown's Jaguar TV Productions, a company known for its 6-minute "infomercials" about such corporations as Gillette and Motorola. Jaguar had never made a film about a university before, but it was eager...
Navy officials reported the forward mast broke on the USS Constitution, the oldest commissioned warship in the United States, which is docked in Charlestown...
...three narratives of Bostonians who suffered through the school battles. The Twymons are a fatherless, churchgoing black family of seven, dependent on public assistance. Alice McGoff is an Irish Catholic widow of a blue-collar worker; she and her seven children live in public housing in the ethnically isolated Charlestown section. Colin and Joan Diver are white Anglo-Saxon Protestants, motivated by liberal compassion. They see themselves and their two sons as "urban pioneers" in the integrated South End, the husband working in city and state government, the wife directing a community-minded foundation...
...with a fierce sense of pride and devotion; Rachel Twymon, afflicted with lupus, passionately determined to work her way up from welfare; Joan Diver, devoted to self-denial and sacrifice. Each has reason to believe that her children are being victimized by busing. Cassandra Twymon, 14, shipped into white Charlestown, cannot abide the abuse and loneliness, and her bright academic future dims. In the city's atmosphere of strife, her brother Frederick backslides into crime. Billy and Lisa McGoff become disruptive students at Charlestown High because they believe the institution will cease to exist once "TLWC"--The Last White Class...