Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...takes Newman longer-seven years, he figures-to know whether his movies are winners or not. His acting in The Verdict is brilliant and solid and, what is more, brilliant in the right direction. He plays a boozy Irish-Catholic lawyer, who is on-screen for nearly all of the film's 125 min., accurately enough to be utterly convincing, with enough restraint so that the audience does not get a hangover, and sympathetically enough so that he reaches out, shakily, and touches heroism. Frank Galvin is a formerly bright and formerly young Boston attorney who was railroaded...
...Harvard rout. In contrast, according to Pike. Guerra is the one on the deck who keeps everyone loose before practice--as in a pre-game warmup when he helped the team get psyched for a game with Notre Dame by leading a rendition of the Irish fight song. (Harvard...
...area where he has lived for four years. The district which is commonly referred to as the "most widely contested most spirited seat in the city," according to city councilor Raymond L. Flynn, includes students, elderly, upper class residents, and "a mix of third or later generation Irish, Hispanics, and Blacks," Roosevelt said...
...Hill from the gold-domed statehouse, celebrated its 175th anniversary. Trustees today include descendants of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. Yet for all its Oriental carpets, marble busts and Victorian antiques, the Athenaeum is no stuffy club of Yankee bluebloods. The trustees include four women, as well as an Irish American Roman Catholic monsignor, and the library's magnificent collection of 750,000 volumes is available to the scholars of the world. One of the finest independent libraries in the country, the Boston Athenaeum truly lives up to its entrance plaque: "Here remains a retreat for those who would...
Frank Herbert's Dune books dealt with life, war and death on a desert planet. The White Plague (Putnam; $14.95) is set on earth in the grim present. Molecular Biologist John Roe O'Neill, an Irish American in Dublin, sees his wife and children annihilated by an I.R.A. bomb. Vengeance becomes his spur. In a home laboratory he invents a new disease and releases the plague in three nations: Ireland, because his family died there; England, because of British oppression; and Libya, because it operates training schools for terrorists. The disease spreads so quickly that life itself...