Word: devlin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After her firebrand activities on behalf of Northern Ireland's Catholic minority, Bernadette Devlin, 23, the youngest member of the British House of Commons, would hardly seem to need more publicity. Yet last week Bernadette, who is unmarried, went out of her way to disclose to the press that she expects a baby in the fall. She refused to name the father. "I do not expect it to be easy," she admitted, "some people might want to see me hide and sulk. Others might feel that they were owed some explanation. But my morals," she insisted, "are a private...
Loving. Set in John Cheever country-the wealthy suburbia of Fairfield County, Connecticut-this American film presents the dilemma of a financially insecure commercial artist unable to come to terms with either his wife or his mistress. Irvin Kershner, who directed from a screenplay by Don Devlin, has a terrific fell for the sterility of his settings and the dogged humanity of his characters. Even when being funny, the movie is underlined by that dim light we associate with the pain of three o'clock in the morning. The picture also has a brilliant climax involving closed-circuit television...
Fresh out of jail, the member for Mid-Ulster wore a bright red pantsuit to Britain's House of Commons for her swearing-in ceremony. Bernadette Devlin, who calls the destruction of the established order "my way of life," said she'd go a-rioting no more. Declared the young woman who was convicted of inciting to riot: "Rioting is an ineffective way of trying to gain one's ends." How about democratic means? "I am in Parliament," said Devlin, "with the intention of using it for my own ends...
...book jacket of Orr on Ice says that it is a book about Orr's style of hockey. Setting your own style by age 22 can be a cool thing: the Beatles did it, so did Bernadette Devlin...
Northern Ireland's politics will never be the same again. The word out of Armagh jail was that Bernadette Devlin, serving a six-month term for inciting riots, had taken up the peaceful craft of crocheting under the tutelage of a convicted murderess. Furthermore, when a fellow Member of Parliament, Ulster's Ivan Cooper, visited Bernadette, he found her surprisingly subdued. "In her political comments, she's a good deal more tolerant than when she went to prison," Cooper observed, "and her temper is much better than it is normally...