Word: melvins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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City Manager Robert W. Healy will negotiate the appointment for overseeing the testing by site owner W.R. Grace Co., which has maintained that the area is free from toxic hazard, said Melvin H. Chalfen, city commissioner of health and hosptials...
CONTRIBUTORS: Kurt Andersen, Jay Cocks, Thomas Griffith, Pico Iyer, Charles Krauthammer, Melvin Maddocks, Jane O' Reilly, Kenneth M. Pierce, Richard Schickel, Mimi Sheraton, John Skow
...Demme (Melvin and Howard) is on higher ground and does a snappier dance. E. Max Frye's script offers a careering trip through the East Coast Nighttown previously explored by Desperately Seeking Susan, After Hours and Blue Velvet. Solid Citizen Jeff Daniels meets Madcap Airhead Melanie Griffith and in a trice is stripped, handcuffed, kidnaped, beaten up and plied with big wet licky kisses. Natch, he goes for it. "What are you gonna do," Melanie asks, "now that you've seen how the other half lives . . . the other half of you." Daniels holds together better than the movie, which lurches...
...candidate's resounding victory last night followed a hotly contested primary election six weeks ago. In that race, he faced a host of Democratic candidates in a field that eventually narrowed to include State Sen. George Bachrach, activist and former Boston mayoral candidate Melvin H. King, and James Roosevelt...
...sincere about it. There was a lot of heart in the performances." Byrne discovered that film can be as subtle and malleable as the tracks of a recording, which may account for the sense of glee, of risks that paid off, that pervade True Stories. Says Filmmaker Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard), who directed the extraordinary Talking Heads performance documentary Stop Making Sense in 1984 and served as an "active friend" to Byrne during the making of True Stories: "You couldn't name a more exciting new director. He can give you something brand new that you understand even...