Word: sullivans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...this While You Were Sleeping has. But its most attractive quality is its ease. The script by Daniel G. Sullivan and Fred Lebow wears its wit casually, and the director, Jon Turteltaub, is serenely confident of it, his actors and his audience. He lets scenes develop and characters--especially Bullock's alert and tender Lucy--emerge at their own unforced pace. How nice it is to come out of a mainstream American movie feeling that you've been treated as an adult. And how rare...
...Robert Sullivan West Newbury, Massachusetts...
M.I.T. Museum. 265 Mass Ave., Cambridge. 253-4444. Through June 18. "From Louis Sullivan to SOM: Boston Grads Go to Chicago." Through drawings and artifacts, this exhibition explores the explosive growth of Chicago in the last quarter of the 19th century and the contributions to this building boom by MIT and Boston architects...
Supporters of the tablets suggest that the buildings are a valuable part of Cambridge's history. "Removing them would be a destructive act all out of proportion to the offense they may cause to some individuals," said Charles M. Sullivan, executive directors of the Cambridge Historical Commission...
...Sullivan's point, that the plaques do little harm, is well taken, but their prominent place within a public building--even as a historical artifact--suggests that the city of Cambridge endorses certain religious views. We cannot apply a utilitarian calculus to our civil rights. While the Constitution seeks to prevent any such state church, there is no such guarantee to local history. If the plaques would be unjustified today, we cannot keep them there because they were put up yesterday...