Word: mayors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...JANUARY MAN. Not a conventional whodunit. The mysteries in this spitball comedy are matters of the eccentric heart: How will a New York City fireman (Kevin Kline) win back his ex-girlfriend (Susan Sarandon) or find accommodating love with the mayor's daughter (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) ? John Patrick Shanley, whose luminous script for Moonstruck won an Oscar, scores again here...
...commuted so she could continue her Christian counseling work with fellow prisoners, she was put to death that November. It was commonly believed that failing to execute the woman would have had dire political consequences for Hunt in the race he lost anyway. When Ed Koch ran for mayor of New York City in the Democratic primary against Mario Cuomo in 1977, the cutting issue was the death penalty. Even though the mayor of a city has nothing to do with the administration of justice, Koch whipped up passions over the electric-chair issue as part of his toughness campaign...
...mayor and the School Committee continue to struggle for political control over educational policy, though, an even more serious obstacle to the controlled choice plan compounds the problem...
...Guiney argues that school assignment and budget issues are separate. She says, "This wasn't a budget document for the Boston Public Schools which assessed and weighed all plans. This was a student assignment plan...[The mayor] is willing to talk about [money], but only within the context of the school budget...
Willie, who was hired by Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn last year to design a new desegregation plan for the city, says, "Over the years people thought that an institution which was 20 percent Black or brown was desegregated. Harvard boasts of the fact that one-fifth of its entering class each year is minority...