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...Fitzpatrick (John Mahoney) is a retired New York City fireman who has lost faith in God but doesn't believe that prevents him from remaining a good Catholic. His wife (whom we never see) is having an affair with the man at the hardware store. Their elder son Mickey (played by writer-director Edward Burns) is a cabbie who marries one of his fares (Maxine Bahns) 24 hours after she hails his hack. The younger, Francis (Mike McGlone), is a master of the Wall Street universe, but not of life beyond it. He claims to be too preoccupied to have...
BOSTON: Just in time for a White House plagued with scandals, a mini-dustup appeared Wednesday around the Dole camp. After Simon Fireman, a former vice chairman of Bob Dole's presidential campaign finance committee, agreed to pay $1 million in fines for making illegal contributions to the Dole campaign, the Clinton campaign jumped on the opportunity to attach the words criminal and illegal to Dole. "He needs to give the details of his relationship with Mr. Fireman and what he knew about this illegal scheme," said campaign spokesman Joe Lockhart. Fireman acknowledged making illegal contributions to the Dole campaign...
...dramatic events, bright dialogue and strong characters than most novels twice its length. The generous spirit is best reflected by Daugherty's dying father, who jauntily toasts his own send-off with a growler of ale and an intimation of paradise that, he says, resembles the inside of a fireman's boot. "That's not what heaven looks like," says his priest. "Then," replies the elder Daugherty, "I'm goin' someplace else." Fiction is full of men and women who can be larger than life. In his best novel so far, Kennedy gives us "splendid nobodies" who are larger than...
...bright dialogue and strong characters than most novels twice its length," says Sheppard. "The generous spirit is best reflected by Daugherty's dying father, who jauntily toasts his own send-off with a growler of ale and an intimation of paradise that, he says, resembles the inside of a fireman's boot. "That1s not what heaven looks like," says his priest. "Then," replies the elder Daugherty, "I'm goin' someplace else." Fiction is full of men and women who can be larger than life. In his best novel so far, Kennedy gives us 'splendid nobodies' who are larger than death...
...coincidence, she believes, that the fire was set just two days before thousands gathered to commemorate the Selma demonstrations that led to passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Last week a 19-year-old white volunteer fireman was charged with the Tyler arson. So far, he has not been linked to any group or any other church fires. But Wendell Paris, a veteran civil rights organizer, observes, "I am convinced these fires are part of a deliberate attempt to retard the progress black people have been making...