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...Black youths were picked up by the police and were harassed or physically assulted on the basis of their race," said Jack Martinelli, president ofthe Cambridge Civic Association (CCA). "A group ofparents then got together and formed CommunitiesActing Together, which requested a civilian reviewboard" to investigate alleged abuses and othercomplaints, Martinelli said...
...parade and a talent show and later a wedding -- is O.K. by our Narrator. He wants us to observe the eccentric rhythms of people's minds and movements. A girl in a white dress careers down the empty highway, emitting bird cries, singing in her own language. Civic Leader Earl Culver (Spalding Gray) uses tomatoes and peppers to illustrate a dinner-table harangue on the fragmenting of capitalism; the lobster centerpiece revolves and glows. A middle-age executive, alone in his office late at night, practices a sensuous boogaloo. In the cozy heart of Reagan's America, the renegade spirit...
...actors found that a little troublesome," he admits. Ask John Goodman, whose portrayal of the earnestly romantic Louis Fyne is a memorable one, what he thinks about Byrne, and he will smile and say, "That man uses a different dictionary." Spalding Gray, the gifted monologist who appears as the civic leader of Virgil, notes that "David's a paradox. He's the most absent-present person I've ever met. He has two worlds going at the same time...
President, Cambridge Civic Association...
...Cambridge Civic Association has supported rent control but not because it is a welfare housing program. That's the function of the Cambridge Housing Authority, the Section Eight Program, the community development corporations such as the Riverside Cambridgeport Community Corporation, the various neighborhood initiatives for linkage or leverage such as those by Area Four Coalition, the Simplex Committee, and numerous initiatives in East Cambridge under Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci's guidance. We strongly support the adoption of a city-wide linkage plan to aid middle as well as low to moderate income residents...