Word: connors
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Opportunes alto section consistently displayed remarkable depth and should continue to figure prominently in their performances. Perhaps instead of including R.E.M. in their repertoire, the Opportunes should add more pieces by altos such as Kirsty MacColl or Sinead O'Connor...
Joycity--a Poets' Theatre production of a Ulick O'Connor play celebrating the life and work of James Joyce. In a virtuosic one-person performance, Irish actor and mime Vincent O'Neill brings joyce and a multitude of the bard's characters to life. At the Poets' Theatre at the Hasty Pudding at 12 Holyoke St. at 8 p.m. Tickets are $12 to $20 and are available at the box office...
...sight of young black children entering a previously all-white Little Rock, Ark., school as Army troops stood guard caused millions of Americans to instinctively understand the rightness and the promise of integration. "Bull" Connor's Birmingham cops and dogs signaled the distance still to travel and helped spur the end to de jure segregation. The image of Richard Daley's Chicago cops clubbing peaceful demonstrators in 1968 caused the Democratic Party to reform itself. To hear the words Kent State is to recall how Americans came finally to recognize the lies and dissembling that characterized the Vietnam...
Another highlight is Hayes's speech about the "gentleman callers" of her youth: the boy that "every girl in the Delta had set her cap for" and the boy who "carried [her] picture on him the night he died." Wingfield's flirtation with the gentleman caller, Jim O'Connor (Glenn Kessler), and his continual open-mouthed inability to get a word in, are also exceptional...
...Gunners' success is giving the kiss of life to a moribund record industry, and has kept rock 'n' roll from doing what it keeps threatening to do: expire. Veering between creaking dinosaurs like the Grateful Dead (the hottest concert act of the past summer), pious scolds like Sinead O'Connor, and mopey '60s retreads like R.E.M., rock 'n' roll is in need of the juice that only true believers like Guns N' Roses can supply...