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...conspicuous new practitioner is a Texan named Vernon Fisher, 37, the only artist represented in all three shows. But political content hardly appears at all. The sole artist concerned with it is an Englishman, Conrad Atkinson (Hirsh-horn), who makes ferocious indictments-by-assemblage over such issues as Northern Ireland and asbestos poisoning of workers. His accumulations of data-letters, text panels, photos of graffiti and so on-undergo very little aesthetic transformation, but they have an undeniable forensic power...
...adroit. To muster support, Paisley sat down ostentatiously in Belfast's City Hall last week, behind a table covered with the Union Jack, to sign his name to "Ulster's Declaration," which he had composed. It pledged allegiance to Queen Elizabeth on the part of Northern Ireland Protestants - and promised a fight against "the conspiracy hatched at the Thatcher-Haughey Dublin summit." The "conspiracy" to which he referred was last December's Dublin summit between British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Prime Minister Charles J. Haughey...
Robin Berrington, outgoing U.S. embassy press attache in Ireland, in a letter that outraged the Irish when it accidentally found its way into the Irish Times: "Ireland has food and climate well matched for each other-dull. [As a post it is] small potatoes...
Inside their turreted, Norman-style abbey in Ulster's County Armagh one evening last week, Sir Norman Stronge, 86, and his son James, 48, had just retired to the library after dinner. The baronet, once speaker of the Northern Ireland Parliament and a former head of the Black Order (a staunch Protestant group), was relaxing in his ancestral home when suddenly the great wooden doors of the 18th century castle were blasted open by a violent explosion. Through the breach burst eight gunmen. The masked and heavily armed terrorists shot the victims through their heads, set off incendiary bombs...
...SECOND ACT seems more like the play Wood wanted to write. Art fades into reality during the first day of filming (in Ireland, with 300 Irish extras as American and British soldiers), and chaos erupts. The film troops, sleeping in tents, are restless, and there is a rumor that Bean will use real bullets in the filming. The Cockney crew members, led by the gaffer, threaten a workers' revolt against Bean-cum-Washington, but they hold together to film the British charge up Bunker Hill--hilariously staged, dummies and all. But they can't hold out, and the turncoat...