Word: irished
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every St. Patrick's Day, Marie Howe holds an Irish celebration, complete with Gay '90s music. Tickets sell for $10, which is less than the $15 campaign-donation disclosure fee and thus allows participants to avoid having their names filed with the state elections commission...
...scarlet letter was placed there by her crooked Irish lover, Dermott Bride. Isaac's tale of jealousy and vengeance is a simple one, diverted by the author's irrepressible gusto: in New York, a woman's eyes turn "a green that was so fierce, Isaac had to grab the wall." In Ireland, the sky is so dark, "the elves must have put a roof on Cashel Hill." Shouts of murderers and comedians sound across the Hudson and Liffey rivers. Episodes in Nighttown and the underworld consciously echo the rhythms of James Joyce and Saul Bellow, but Charyn...
Nevertheless, you are likely to find some diversity within most of the final clubs. "Even the Porc," said a clubbie. Blacks, Italian surnames, Irish surnames are found among the Cabots and the Lowells...
...Jackson's most offensive remarks were yet to come. At a meeting requested by the administration at 2 o'clock Saturday morning, Jackson claimed he had "new information" that there were still many construction workers at the site--"Irish, Italian, and others of working-class descent" as he put it--for whom the dedication ceremony was the culmination of 18 months hard work. "Think of their reaction," Jackson said; "They will be there in numbers." And here he noted the probability of a riot between hardhats and protesters. He also tried to divide us along racial lines, glancing meaningfully...
...Irish Ballad Opera--"The Poor Soldier" performed under the direction of Charlotte Kaufman. At Tapestry Hall, hMuseum of Fine Arts, Boston, at 3:30 p.m. Free. Call 267-9300, ext. 340 for more details...