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Governor Emmett Shannon is a mick manque who goes to Mass only when the press is present. His battle with a contracting czar over the grafting of parking facilities onto Boston's tiny, jewel-like Public Gardens is neither as funny nor as deadly as it should be. Still, Edward Sheehan is expert at mapping the social-climbing customs of the local clans. Irish civic life-with its blend of the sacred and profane, its flouting of the separation between church and state -is the author's real subject. The Emmett Shannons of the world still have their...
...York has produced such a remarkable number of vital talents as Los Angeles. The minimal cool and delicacy of much Los Angeles work can be seen as partly a retreat from the incredibly blatant environment in which it is made. But the stereotype of L.A. style (shiny plastic and jewel finish) is by no means as rigid as it looks from New York. The scene is very diverse. Among its more gifted members: ED MOSES, 43, was born at Long Beach, Calif., and ran through a number of careers before turning to art-spray painter, riveter, lifeguard. Unlike many...
Bear Baited. The new production ot Georges Dandin has been both praised and hated for an approach that "makes a Marxist out of Molière." The revolution comes in the inner citadel of the French classical tradition, the 17th century jewel box of Richelieu's theater at the Comédie-Française itself, where Molière played the lead before Louis XIV in 1668. Georges Dandin is an early farce, today often left to the schoolroom, about a rich peasant who has married above himself, is cuckolded by his wife and humiliated by her pretentious...
...This year rank-and-file members have rejected a record one out of twelve contracts negotiated by their embarrassed and harassed leaders. In San Francisco last month, the ironworkers won a 30% increase in a one-year contract, a raise of $2.01 an hour. Even so, says their leader Jewel Drake, 56, "the younger leadership is not satisfied. I don't understand what they really want, what it would take to satisfy them...
...What a pity the Western culture is unlike the Oriental. The Chinese, who have for centuries held their elders in the highest esteem, have words regarding their aged: The house with an old grandparent harbors a jewel...