Word: flanagan
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...social tract, however, can also be a movie. Ladybird, Ladybird is a good one-more painful to watch than any slasher film, because its emotional violence literally hits home. And however close Jorge comes to being fitted for the halo worn in Boys Town by Spencer Tracy's Father Flanagan, the new film rarely sentimentalizes its scorching situations...
Stations: An Imaginary Journey by Michael Flanagan (Pantheon; $21). The artist-author carries us back to Old Virginny with a dual-media performance: 38 paintings of bygone railroads and Shenandoah Valley townscapes juxtaposed with a 50-page story about the love affair between Anna, an enigmatic artist, and Russell, a photographer and train buff. The meticulous paintings depict Russell's old photographs, complete with creases and torn edges. The text is the reminiscence of an apocryphal ex-newspaperman whose attempt to reconstruct a forgotten romance resurrects family secrets and American history. This is an original example of Proust's observation...
...House, where Judiciary Chairman Jack Brooks of Texas, at 21 terms the longest-serving lawmaker seeking re-election, was ousted by Republican Steve Stockman 52-46 percent. Former Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski was handily defeated in a 55-45 upset by little-known GOP challenger Michael Flanagan. Overall, 32 Democratic incumbents lost and three trailed.Post your opinion to theElection '94bulletin board
With The End of the Hunt (Dutton; 627 pages; $24.95), a novel that sifts the moral and political wreckage left by the Irish civil war of 1921, Thomas Flanagan brings to a rueful close his vast, intelligent, unfailingly civilized trilogy about Ireland's struggle to rid itself of English domination. Here as in the earlier novels, The Year of the French and The Tenants of Time, there is a powerful sense that the future is watching over one's shoulder. Unlike the characters, the reader knows that all the heroism and treachery, all the endless talk and rising...
...Flanagan's main observer this time is Janice Nugent, a well-born Catholic widow. She falls in love with a scholar on the run from the British who is an aide to the implacable revolutionary Michael Collins. It is a period of shaky nerves in great houses, of informers, of men in overcoats lurking about with revolvers, of Dublin, as ever, "a notorious whispering gallery of rumor, malice, speculation, spiced always and made palatable, such was the claim, by wit and vivacity. Or bad manners passing as such." It is a time that devours its heroes, not always neatly...