Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Indeed, the production has been an affirmation of the family Huston, a confluence of circumstances that sums up two generations of experience. "This picture is very significant to me," says Huston, a Joyce aficionado who lived in Ireland for 25 years and still holds an Irish passport. "It's based on Joyce, it takes place in Ireland, it stars my daughter and is written by my son." The man who directed his father Walter in the 1948 classic The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (for which both won Academy Awards) and guided Anjelica to last year's supporting-actress Oscar...
Both Walker and Toner are dressed in green sweaters, khaki slacks, and brown shoes. Both speak in a believable Irish brogue. Alone in the bedroom, the two help each other imagine what existence will be like living in Philadelphia with "their" aunt. First, Gar is a star soccer player, then a businessman on his way to becoming president of a major corporation. Next, he's a famous violinist; later he's a powerful U. S. Senator...
...original purveyors of Ugly Rock, a combination of squealing guitars, intentional feedback, and strange vocal harmonies, were such now-famous British and Irish ugly rockers as Them, the Kinks, and the Yardbirds. Like fellow Aussies the Hoodoo Gurus, the Huxtons (why isn't their nickname "The Creepers"?) more or less follow this British model, though with some American-style modifications like vocal harmonies and guitars of the chiming, trebly sort associated with such bands as the Byrds...
...hour long debate was sponsored by the Irish Times newspaper and will be aired in Ireland, Australia, and Great Britain, a spokesmen for the newspaper said...
...Irish Times chose Harvard as the site ofthe debate due to its role as a respectedindependent academic institution which would morelikely attract the Soviet officials, according toChristina Murphy, a spokesman for the Irish Times...