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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Earl (Gary Kian), an over-aged, childlike buffoon; brother James (Pat MacNamara), a reformed alcoholic and aspiring academic; and Harry (Frank Converse), the only realistic possibility, a Beacon Hill lawyer married into wealth and long ago estranged from the family. Compounding the tension is the elder McMillan (Carroll O'Connor), an aging Irish head-of-the-local who believes firmly in organized labor, romanticizes the good old days of socialism and, despite his elder sons' urging, is determined to win the upcoming union elections for the 26th consecutive year...

Author: By David B. Pollack, | Title: Thicker Than Water | 9/28/1983 | See Source »

...years now, the demographics of the American short story have been moving upscale. The line of Hemingway drifters and Flannery O'Connor grotesques seems to be dying out. Characters rarely worry any more about finding God or their next meal. They are likely instead to be well educated, sensitive to a fault, politically liberal, and affluent enough to feel pleasurable guilt in their possessions. They tend, in short, to resemble the stereotypical reader of The New Yorker, which is where the luckiest of these fictional people are chosen to appear. The rejected ones must troop off to the quarterlies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: More Art from Less Matter | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

...city council vote came after more than an hour of confusing legal discussions, and a heated exchange between Councilor David Wylie, a strong supporter of the measure, and Draper Vice President John F. O'Connor. A large crowd of observes, which spilled over into halls and the upstairs galleries, stayed for the whole discussion, despite the sweltering heat mitigated only by one small clacking electric...

Author: By Jacob M. Scillesinger, | Title: City Council Jeopardizes Nuke-Free Referendum | 8/9/1983 | See Source »

...already risen to pay for Projects 1,2 and 3. Moreover, their utilities will have to pay exceptionally high interest rates to raise capital in the bond market. At the moment, many investors are shunning bonds from the Northwest. "The whole thing is a nightmare," says Paul O'Connor, press secretary to Governor Spellman. "If traders on Wall Street have the choice between something that says Washington on it or something that says Indiana on it, they are going to go for Indiana. We've got a cloud hanging over us." Even the state government is suffering from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Whoops! A $2 Billion Blunder: Washington Public Power Supply System | 8/8/1983 | See Source »

...American high school teacher, a move that entitled him to stay in the U.S. regardless of the outcome of his case. They have a daughter, Sashi, 2. Last October Terry became so impatient with the appeals that she wrote a letter to Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Foreigner Who Upset U.S. History | 7/4/1983 | See Source »

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