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...WONDERFUL SCENE at the end of the movie The Candidate, just after a youthful Senate candidate played by Robert Redford learns he has won a major upset victory. Before descending from his hotel room to deliver his victory address, the fledgling politician anxiously pulls his aides into a vacant suite and nervously asks, "What...
...first step in implementing the commission's recommendation. City Manager Robert H. Healy yesterday notified the council of his appointment to the vacant executive director's post at the rent board...
...adverse effects of this success have been fairly evident on his recent albums, as simplistic, vacant songs replace textured and emotionally complicated ones. The sensitive perspective conveyed in songs like "Just the Way You Are" became blurred with hedonism and pretentiousness in "Sleeping With The Television On" and "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me." But in his latest effort. Joel confirms his status as a songwriter swept up in his own whirlwind fame and alienated from the normality he used to celebrate and glorify. The Nylon Curtain so emphatically reveals Joel's emotional detachment that the album serves...
...their buildings, which pressures tenants to abandon the apartments. After that, vandals may torch the building, or scavengers, called "junkies" in the arson business, strip the building for pipes or scrap metal and burn what's left to cover up the robbery. There are between 1200 and 1400 vacant buildings in Boston; once they are disposed of--as about 170 were this summer--the real estate market opens up for redevelopment...
...questions, including whether City Hall purposely cuts fire protection to areas eyed by property developers to hasten resident turnover--as was charged in New York by some arson-watchers after a similar wave in 1972 But in the meantime, while city officials debate what to do with all the vacant buildings still dotting the map, or how to beef up the arson squad to catch the culprits, they might do well to think a little more thoroughly about the fate of Boston's changing neighborhoods, and how to enable poorer long-term residents to stay put in their homes...