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...praised and heartily recommended for "serious moviegoers" (always beware of this one) and has won for itself a slew of awards. Its style has been praised as the cinematic equivalent of James Joyce, which it may well be, but then again, when was the last time you picked up Finnegan's Wake for a couple hours of enlightenment...
White picked up many of the votes cast in the preliminary election for Boston School Committee President David Finnegan--and in the city's black wards, where he was beaten by State Rep Melvin H. King in the primary, he humiliated his challenger...
After the September 25 preliminary election--when White beat Timilty by about 14 per cent--both candidates concentrated their efforts on attracting those voters who had chosen either Finnegan or King...
Kevin White admits that after 12 years the voters are looking for an alternative. But he has staked his campaign on the belief that Joe Timilty is not the man they're looking for. In fact, over the last eight years, none of the alternatives--Louise Day Hicks, David Finnegan, Mel King or Timilty--has drawn enough balanced support to unseat the mayor...
...Dorchester, West Roxbury and Hyde Park. Timilty traditionally wins in the high-turnout Irish areas. He has never won by much; and the vote seems to be more anti-White than pro-Timilty. But the state senator lost nearly half his 1975 support there to School Committee President David Finnegan. Timilty needs these votes back in his column to have a chance tomorrow. Timilty must also pick up some black and liberal votes to counter White's rising popularity with the Irish. Yet he has done little to win liberal voter's support, evidenced by the ambivalent semi-endorsement...