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...plot of Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, which has yet to open in Boston, in turn follows the real-life story of bankrupt Irishman who dreams of producing the operas Carcuso in the Brazilian jungle. To raise the necessary capital to back his production, he decides to cash in on the rubber boom by taking a steamship to virgin tracts of jungle, carrying it a mile overland to an otherwise inaccessible river. The real Fitzcarraldo (so named because the natives could not pronounce Fitzgerald) cut a 20-ton steamship into 15 pieces to accomplish his made task. Herzog, in his reenactment, does...
...York Irishman Bourke Cockran (who had been one of Jennie's lovers), wrote Churchill, was the best speaker he ever heard, "in point, in pith, in rotundity, in antithesis and in comprehension...
...bode better than a suburban Long Island one for a fighter, Gerry Cooney counters that there were bedrooms in his home as treacherous as some boroughs in the city. Four Cooney boys were at large in Huntington Station, and, until he died of cancer six years ago, one tough Irishman was in charge. Arthur J. Cooney ("Tony" was his fellow construction workers' misunderstanding of "Cooney") applied the two disciplines of his life, the Merchant Marine and ironworking, to rearing children. The amalgam amounted to walking a narrow beam at attention. Sometimes Eileen Cooney wonders if her sons...
...after working for various architects in Ireland and England, Roche decided to study under Glass-Box Master Mies van der Rohe at the Illinois Institute of Technology. After a year, Roche began bumming around the U.S. His not-so-taciturn fellow Irishman, Yale Art Historian Vincent Scully, contends that this was the time when Roche "was bowled over by the bigness and power of American industrial architecture...
...cast variegated in color and comedy: a king built on the order of a mahogany tree; his impudent adviser Hannibal, who addresses his majesty as Kingy; the irreverent Reverend Judith Longnecker, billed as "the perfect Christian guerrilla"; and the mandatory beauty, Audrey Damien, daughter of a mad old Irishman who is editor of the Zenkali Voice, the island's sole newspaper. In the course of exploration, Peter and Audrey stumble upon a lost valley inhabited by the rara avis itself...