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Small Change at 1, 4:25, 7:55, and Elvira Madigan...
Director-Writer Widerberg is best known in the U.S. for the romantic Elvira Madigan. But, as he showed in a much better film, Adalen, 31, he is a man of strong political convictions, which he is able to get across without turning the characters into long-playing ideological records. In one fine moment here, for example, he allows a rogue cop a long speech in which he reveals how the job has brutalized him. If it is no easier to like him as a result, at least one can begin to understand what happened to him. In short, Widerberg...
This elected prankster is not unique in the city. School Committeewoman Elvira "Pixie" Palladino ("She's got balls," Dapper says) achieved her notoriety by slugging Ted Kennedy at an anti-busing protest rally. There are plenty of clowns at places like Whitey McGrail's and Kelly's Tavern who help make the beers go down more pleasantly. By a series of accidents, the media and voters have launched O'Neil into perpetual orbit. A politician who cannot mobilize support, cultivate influence or avoid social solecisms, he was spawned by the social, political and economic problems that trouble the frightened white...
...major shakeup occured in the five-member school committee, as moderate David I. Finnegan took the seat vacated by Kerrigan and Elvira "Pixie" Palladino, an East Boston anti-busing leader, beat out anti-busing incumbent Paul J. Ellison...
...September to bring kids into the magnet schools. They will [then] be assigned on an involuntary basis, and having a large portion of kids assigned to what are supposed to be magnet schools is a contradiction in terms." Boston still has fierce advocates of purely neighborhood schools. Says Elvira ("Pixie") Palladino, East Boston leader of ROAR (Restore Our Alienated Rights): "You'll never get to the point where kids will go out of their schools for better programs...