Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People have had enough of problems, they just want them to go away," Joe Incagnoli '80, a first-semester sophomore and self-acclaimed punk, says. (Joe prefers his neighborhood nickname, "Lulla.") Incagnoli plays rhythm guitar for "Ricky and the Invaders," a local punk band from East Boston, where he grew...
...Little Kid moved into the neighborhood...
Mission Hill residents opposed to the project believe that it would create an environmental health hazard, destroy the character of their neighborhood, raise taxes and result in Harvard controlling the area, Michael Lambert, a member of the Mission Hill Planning Commission, said yesterday...
...began with boxing instruction at a neighborhood center and younger brother Michael as sparring partner. After dropping out of school in the tenth grade, he eventually joined the Marine Corps and its Camp Lejeune boxing squad. Despite a tendency to avoid training whenever possible, Spinks' brawling aggressiveness won him a spot on the 1976 U.S. Olympic team in Montreal. While Mom watched on a borrowed TV set in St. Louis, he and Michael, by then a fast-rising middleweight, became the first brothers to win gold medals in boxing simultaneously...
There is great sympathy in these songs, observations that can be caustic and still stay fond. Work like this makes it quite plain that for all the contradictions, Billy Joel is writing and singing some of the best pop music in the neighborhood. It might even make Virginia Callahan think twice...