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Kelly ran very strongly in his home, South Boston, and white Dorchester, both of which vote strongly in preliminaries, but his vicious, blatantly racist reputation has hurt in the other Irish wards. Hennigan, herself a newcomer but with a large political family, may pick up liberal support (she favors district representation and is pro-ERA); she is seen as the likely replacement for the only current woman councilor, Rosemarie Sansone, who is not running. Watch for The Boston Globe to push Hennigan in an attempt to keep Kelly of the council...
THIS IS DOZENS, a vicious, angry, game rooted in the Black ghetto culture of our country, a ritual in which participants vent physical hostility through a series of rhymes and insults. When we first meet the young woman portrayed in Christine Dall and Randall Conrad's The Dozens, she is yelling at a correctional officer, playing the game, sharpening the instincts that serve her as well in the outside world as they do in prison...
...Neil Simon's movie Only When I Laugh [Oct. 5]. I too found myself "strained" by the bombardment of simplistic one-liners and disappointed by the film's lack of substance. However, I thought Mr. Schickel's attack on Neil Simon and Marsha Mason downright vicious. Marsha Mason does possess the very "natural charm" that Mr. Schickel says she lacks. In a masterly way, she portrays a vulnerability and human fallibility with which so many of us can identify...
...quoting St. Paul. The odd, vivid term sometimes used for it was backbiting. The word suggested a sudden, predatory leap from behind-as if gossip's hairy maniacal dybbuk landed on the back of the victim's neck and sank its teeth into the spine, killing with vicious little calumnies: venoms and buzzes...
...George Gene Nathan got out." In a review of a play called Number 7, the playwright, he wrote, "has misjudged by five." In another, he suggested that "the lead actor be gently, but firmly, shot at dawn." Yet, he was as lavish in his praise as he was vicious in his derision. Priding himself on his taste and knowledge, he was the first to champion the "little greatness" of Eugene O'Neill, and to praise the antics of the Marx Brothers. As drama critic, his word could make or break a play, and he took full advantage of the fear...