Word: neill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That one will be the survivor of a grueling, two-year political marathon to succeed Speaker of the House Thomas P. O'Neill (D-Mass.) as the next representative of the famous and coveted Eighth Congressional District...
...evenhandedness of a sociologist and the fervor of an accountant. They aim to inform and perhaps to persuade but not to dictate. The only outrageously opinionated fellow left is the cartoonist, no longer confined to illustrating the boss's prejudices and free to tweak Reagan or ridicule Tip O'Neill. In the past presidential election several newspapers declined to endorse a candidate. It wasn't so much a case of disliking both nominees as a decision that the paper shouldn't be in the business of proclaiming a preference...
...best plays of Eugene O'Neill and John Osborne, Edward Albee and Harold Pinter, wherever anger scalds and language blisters, the ghost of this strange, contradictory figure hovers in the wings. The demons he unleashed from his bedroom still wander through films and fiction today. As a young man, Strindberg wrote his manifesto: "No spring-cleaning is possible, everything must be burned, blown to bits." Here stands the classic confession of the artist as terrorist--not a nice man, but very much our contemporary...
...first contenders to announce his candidacy for the retiring Thomas P. O'Neill's Congressional seat last night told the Harvard Democratic Club that the decline of American society prompted him to enter the race...
...same distortion of the soul destroys the people around Hickey, including, in more winsome but still painful performances, Barnard Hughes as a burned-out barkeep and Donald Moffat as a former anarchist who cannot decide whether he is more afraid of dying or of going on living. O'Neill gives each of the 17 barflies a revelatory scene, and every actor in this superb cast proves capable of that moment at center stage. The ensemble's energized acting, an apparent clash with the passivity of the text, emphasizes O'Neill's redemptive theme: that everyone, no matter how close...