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Mrs. William Ma rchione, Jr. 228 Washington St . Sri ghton MA 02135 Cll-25
Softening city life flowers and vegetables that will in a landscaping competition among Gardeners bloom in their gardens. housing developments in 1986 and Rather than cursing April showers, were recently honored by the Br:jght· digging the gardeners like Evelyn M&cMahon and on Allston Improvement Association her neighbor Cathy Noseworthy work for their handiwork. line weather in it -the rain softens the soil, mak· "We try t.o have something bloom· ing it easier t.o manipulate. ing every month,'' commented. Mac· By Jane Braverman .. We go out in the rain and tum the Mahon. whose garden boasts rose Citizen Item Staff ground," commented MacMahon. bushes, cherry t~ tiger lilies, irises ''Transplanting is best done in damp and a host of ot.her flowers which vary While some of us curse the dreary weather. from year to year. New England weather that plagues MacMahon aqd Noseworthy have But the garden represents more the city at this time of year, others get jointly cultivated a flower garden. in.. than the hard work of two women. It out their spades and prepare the soil the Faneuil Housing Development for is a collaborative effort. Residents while April showers make way for the the past five years. They placed first contiruud on page 22
Hub Bub This elgn~ at the corner of Commonwealth Avenue a11d Thorndike Street makes for an lnterelJting eculpture ol 1oet auto huboapa. Evelyn MacMabon (fl'ont) and Cathy Noeeworthy tend their garden at the Faneuil Bouaing Developnumi re 8T.uY PSOTO BY JULIA llJUl'IBO oently. They are hoping fm a good growing eeaaon. 8'1'AFP PB
87 Jm Bravennaa aUeet8 of Allatoa and Brighton. Many Jocal residents say that it is mmerving to Q&beD Item Staff But it's not for a new film proDIOting the virtues have a van driving in their aeighborbood. fi1ming of city living, nor is it for a new S~ For Hire their homes.. ~ residents living on Oak Square As thoueanda of Americau wat.diid tba Acade abow-it's to help the department do a better job Avenue observed a van filming the homes on their my Awards OD ihedty'1 A--.. teleViaba Mciadq, compJeting the new prapert.y revaluatioa tJw ia ~t tut Thursday afternoon, they rm oat into Ina .Jlepe.rtmmt bu been busy ..... tbe .... two scheduled to be out in. time for nan year'a tu bille. weeks shooting their own JDOYie9 cm Joc:et,;on in. the And 80IDe peophs are not happy about iL COllfittll«l on ,... 40
.. Page 2 CITIZEN ITEM April 15, 1988 .... With $50 million to spend, MDC wants more open sj:Jace Looking for something to buy
proudly presents By John Becker live entertainment Citizen Item Staff Wed.-Sat. Nights The Metropolitan District Com· 9:00 p.m.-12:30 a~m. mission has $50 million to spend on NO COVER acquisition of new open space for its extensive system of parks. However, Featuring it didn't seem to be too important, Weekly Sunday for few from Brighton, Allston, Bea· Brunch Specials con Hill, Brookline and Cambridge 12 am-3 pm bothered to attend the Wednesday night meeting at the Taft School to Kitchen Open suggest any potential sites for the Until Midnight MDC to buy. Fewer than ten residents attend· THE ALLSTON DEPOT ed this week's meeting, the sixth in 358 Cambridge Stree~ End of Hamn! Aw. a series of community meetings 783·ml. Ample fre.e perking. sponsored by the MDC.to solicit in· put for their eventual acquisitions. MDC Commissioner William Geary addressed the "intimate gathering,'' praising the state legis lature for the $130 million bond they approved last December ~be called it " the largest open space acquisition bill in history"). About $50 million of that sum is available for discre tionary acquisitions, Geary noted. Right: MDC CnmmlMfoner Some of the MDC's criteria for Wtlllam Geary. Above: A land purchases are: 2. 3, & 4 Bedroom Homes from the $50s view of St. Gabrlel"a •strengthening existing park Monaatery In Brighton. boundaries to prevent inappropriate Some have suggested that encroachments or intrusions (much the MDC look Into the ac of the MDC owned land in Brighton qulsltion of the site and lines the Charles River); other lnatitutlonal proper· •protecting cultural resources and ties ln Brighton. natural areas that are endangered or unique to the Commonwealth, in cluding urban wilds, geological out croppings and historic sites; •protecting important ecosystems that transcend political boundaries such as watersheds, river corridors the site have thus far been thwart Avenue near Lake Street might be and wildlife habitats; ed by neighbors with city support. one option, he said. •reclaiming abused or neglected "1 strongly suggest that the Com McLaughlin also urged the MDC sites. Isolated sites may be desirea mission look at some of these [in to improve the smaller parcels-such ble if they fulfill a special open space stitutional] properties," said Galvin. as a triangular plot on W estem need and if there is strong local in· Later, following a question by Avenue-they already own. He not terest and support for acquisition. Brighton resident Patricia Kellogg, ed that the MDC owns a portion of Following a short slide presenta· MDC Director of Planning Julia the Allston Landing site. tion on the history of the MDC, O'Brien noted that the distance of Commented the MDC's O'Brien, Geary invited testimony from the the institutional properties from "We are concerned about [Allston public. other MDC lands was "a drawback." Landing's} relationship to the river, Local elected officials-St ate But, she said, "some of [the proper as you are concerned about its rela Reps. Kevin Honan and William ties) are st.rong enough in and of tionship to your neighborliood." Galvin and Di.strict 9 City Councilor themselves to be considered." Although she bad no specific ideas Brian McLaughlin-testified at the for land to acquire at Wednesday's meeting on behalf of their consti· Galvin also suggested that the meeting, Allston resident Anita tuents. They commended the MDC MDC was "better equipped" than Bromberg expressed general ap for its work on local parks and asked the city to handle the city's own proval to include more open space in ~ by for more services. parks. Both Chandler's Pond and the MetroParks system. "As much Charles P. Kelly Potential sites for future MDC ac· Smith Field are near or abutting ==~ ~ land as you can get a hold of, get it," .... B.S., R. PH. quisition in Brighton mentioned by MDC land, Galvin noted. she urged. ~ Galvin included the extensive Honan, who praised the MDC's The MDC is conducting meetings church-related properties at St. work, asked for more staff and pro I SPECIAL DELIVERY all over their area of jurisdiction, Gabriel's Monastery, tbe Cenacle. grams at Artesani Playground and which stretches from Wakefield and Some drugs are now being delivered iDto St. John's Seminary and Mt. St. more access to rowing programs for Waltham in the north to Quincy and patients' bodies in sncha way as to minimir,e Joseph's Academy. None of the Brighton children. N antasket Beach in the south and side effec .ts. target specific organs, and con· properties are currently for sale, Geary admitted that Artesani Dover and Weston in the west and trol their release. For instance. snstailled- however. needed "some updating" with "less the Boston Harbor Islands in the release tablets have a coating which slows Also mentioned was the Boston asphalt." east. After the Commission bas the release of the active ingredient and con· half of the 13 acre site of the former McLaughlin suggested that new decided upon which properties to ac trols the rate at which it is absorbed. Other St. Sebastian's School, which is MDC properties be contiguous with quire (in about six months), they will active ingredients are delivered by way of owned by developer Alan Green. existing ones. An MBTA-owned return to the communities for infor transdermal patches. Worn on the skin like Green's recent attempts to build on traffic island on Commonwealth mational sessions. an adhesive bandage, a medicine-saturated patch releases controlled amounts of active ingredients over an extended period. There are also tablets that have coatings which resist absorption in the stomach. In this way, the medicine reaches its intended site, the small intestine. with all its medicinal Pully power intact. These a.re but a few t.echniques Insured used to make medicine-taking more specific. NOW CHECKING 10% SENIOR CITIZEN PRESCRIPTION DISCOUNT . PAYlOTHE NO SERVICE CHARGEI • PDIC/SIF KELLY'S PHARMACY ORDEROF.~------~--~-- S------. 389 Washington St., Brighton : Call 782-2912 - 782-0781 • $100.00 minimum daily balance Check Our Low Prescription Prices : Call for Fast Free Prescription Delivery Hours: Mon. thru Fri. 9 am - 7 pm ' Sat: 9 am-6 pm FOR flll•Ut7, We welcome Medicaid, Blue Cross, penoa.U.ed Hnice Medex, Master Health Plus, P.C.S. Plans, ...... , baa& ••• 1929 Commonwealth Ave., Btlgbtoo Teamsters. VNA Medical Supplies . Telephone - 2 54-6200 • - Page 4 CITIZEN ITEM April 15, 1988 IN FOCUS Up close with Harold Brown
By Clyde Whalen His success in real estat.e started in Citizen Item Correspondent the late 60' s. "When rent control first came out, As a youngster he hustled a living the buildings were a wreck. It was go setting up pins in the Huntington ing down the drain with students and Bowling Alleys and also played clari· rent control, but in the late 60's and net for vaudeville shows in the Capi early 70's young professionals start tal Theatre. ed moving in. The Yuppies. That's He attended Jackson and Whitney what turned the area around." elementary schools, Brookline High Brown at.tributes his success to and M.I.T., where he majored in buying when prices hit rock bottom, metallurgy, played hockey and was a as when, in the early 70's, oil prices member of the crew. were up and interest rates were high. He was born at 1160 Common· Believing in a bright future for All· wealth Ave. and recalls living near the ston/Bright.on, he invested heavily, Princeton HQtel, which was occupied. buying from those who wanted out of by the Boston Braves during their the market. · home stands and fondly remembers "We had that situation again, dur how they used to throw baseballs ing the last 60 days of 1986. Because "down to us kids." the 1987 tax changes everyone was By now you probably recognize trying to sell their property to take Harold Brown who always had great advantage of lower capital gains confidence in Allston/Brighton. rates. ''It was a very underutilized area " It was a real mob scene. We picked near the turnpike and the two AIDT A up a hundred million dollars worth of lines; near Boston, with a Jot of places property at the end of the year. That's to live. Like South Boston is now, All another opportunity akin to the 70's ston/Brighton was, befor:e it was "dis I don't know if we'll ever see again." covered..'' But Allston/Brighton has a Brown drives a 190E Mercedes lot better transportation to which he calls the "austerity" model downtown." He'd like to wear a warmup suit for business but realizes it's too extreme so he keeps a few suits to match oc casions but dislikes wearing them. "Today's people are.much more in· formal. The only restaurant you can't go to informally is the Ritz, really. Brown at h1a ~Y care center•• openlng earlier th_!e year. Most other restaurants you can go with sportshirt and no tie." PlaJSHER lrld I 1-EhT Brown has strong opinions. the drain. Much sounder. I think in "Right here at 80 Ashford St. we Vol. 103 Fnid9rt N Plh1ey No. 16 About the new tax setup he is op time it will make property values go have a 20-thousand foot lot ofland on GEJelW.. lllWWlER which I offered to put up 48 units. l Judlih F. Ptimay timistic: up." started with 60 and kept bringing it NEWS EDITOft "It's a fantastic thing. Long over Mention of " affordable housing'' Jdln M. Shaw Jr. due. People were building on the ba gets his dander up. down; 48, 38, 28. Some neighbor down CC1HTR9UT1NG mrTOR "First we've got to find out if there the street didn't like the idea of hous l..MyHarmcn sis of tax shelter. Now they're going to have to build on the basis of cash is indeed a lack of housing. Is it some ing there so we've put up an office REPORTERS warehouse. Better for us, frankly. Klmberty A. Becll • Jolwl e.cbt-. Malgnt Bums flow. There'll be less building. Less thing you read in the papers? Some KMI OeYlne • ~ a.-nan • Maly Grirm1w construction. Less people going down thing people like to talk about? continued on page 6 llllS WEEK Edlor, Mallin s. Gofdqlan PltOTOGRAPHER JUiia Shapiro ACCOUNT EXECUTIVES I LETTERS John Frchle< • Phil Hen:og • Tim Hoskef .1an Borolll¥llc • Elz:abelh ~eoo·· LUnt ~ Mc:Ccrmack • Michael c..we mention must go to the V,F.W. Post earth are strangers to history. As AOVERnSINO COOAlllNATOf.I Thank you 2022 Oak Sq. (George Marchione, Shakespeare wrote, "The evil that Wing Lui ClASSIRED ADYfRT1SiNQ Officer Quinn Commander/Frank O'Rourke, Man men do lives after them. The good is RhOdll WNIOn ager) Captain Zaippo's, 668 Cam· oft interred with their bones." So Jet CAREER OPPOR'TUflT1ES To The Editor: bridge St., Joe Amorosino, President it be with Hermit Bill Britt. E. Slwl ShlPlo • Lena Gomes Brighton Board of Trade, and last, PAOOUCT10H MANAGERS Recently a burglar was arrested for C"1 Tlll'llOl*IZZI • si.n.- ~ but by no means least, The Brass En· Clyde Whalen Nm$1$ breaking into a No. Allston apart semble from Boston University. Nancy - • av.. Adams °""'9)' ment. This arrest was made possible Congratulations also to the new Jam Mass by an all-out effort by No. Allston president Dave O'Connor. I wish TYPOGRAPHERS resjdents and the Boston Police David and bis new officers "Good Obscene remarks lllhld weelcly ~ Qllwi Gn:lup ~ 481 Hiit· a home in your neighborhood is rendered justly -U .... a-lllne. MA 1121• Second claw Poslage. broken into, make sure the whole quote the obscenity shouted at the paid II eo.ri, W.. POST1IASTER: Send 8ddra. dWlg9 victim. To have said a racial obsceni· lo ~ Grcup Pul6::llior'IS, P.O. lloll 481, l!looldN, MA neighborhood knows" -which.is what To The Editor. 02148 (\JSPS014-1li0). ~ere yem-S12.0Cl. T"° we did and got good results. ty was shouted would have been ~ ~ ~ per~ $17.00. $25.00 During a ten-year period, my facts sufficient. News 009! nus be 9lClmiaad 1'f Monday • 5 PA tar Does the Citizen wish to make ~ ... - _.._ Ol!play 81M1111aing.deodlle la Mary McAuliffe Cosby on Bill Britt gave an accurate picture Item Sp.m. n-llry. ~~ 10&.m. ~ Barbara Kiddie of the man as I saw him. including pic us'all victims by exposing us to such TheGrcup-.-no ....~IDr~ ignorance? Clllemn h ~ bulw!lniprire. Without~ tures as the camera saw him and his .... pm! of ,the~""*" is Intamld. Claims IDr BAIA meeting was surroundings. Maureen Murphy-Bott lbolnce llUil be mdl In wiVG ..... - llays. Cid tor emn made or1'Y tar tnt lnledlon. I used little imagination and no 55 Etna St. PUlllJSHER a big success metaphors. My observations of Britt Brighton G. Ruseel Phiiney, 1934-1982 To The Editor: were honest reporting of actual events. Ed. Note: In an attempt to portray an. I would like to take this opportuni· My report on bis passing was no alleged racial attack as accurately and ty to thank all of the people who made less factual, although I omitted cer· with as much detail as possible, we tain information I judged would decided to print a quote which conr T...... 117-232-7000 • A llelnbm' Of the Broollline the Brighton Allston Improvement Ownbw Of earrm..o. • ,,_.__ nlllar1llily bV U.S. Association's Annual meeting such a achieve no good end. tained a racially-derogatory obsceni SV8URllAN PRESS, INC. huge success. Obviously I cannot People who think that death is all ty. It was not our intent to offend our name each individual, but special it takes to erase a man's record on readers. April 15, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM Page 5 Hoin:mg in on hazardous waste Train For TRAJN TOBE A AIRLINE /TRAVEL By Jane Braverman "The choices aren' t. easy," said noted Costner. PROFESSIONAL I CAREERS!l Citizen Item Staff Houghton. "Beware of people who Evi Seidman, a performing artist •SECRETARY offer simple answers." specializing in Environmental Edu· • SEC./AECEPTIONI • TRAVEL AGENT • EXECUTIYE SE While community awareness has J runes Gutenson, commissioner cation offered a humorous but I TICKET AGENT been heightened regarding the dis· of the State Environmental sobering look at the problems as Start locally, lull urn&' pelt lll'ne. learn wonf • STATION AGENT posal of industrial hazardous waste. Management Department men· sociated with hazardous waste and plOC8SSlng end relll8d many homeowners are unaware of tioned the state's plans to address its impact on our drinking water. 5eQ'llarill tkils. Home I RESERVATIONIST the number of hazardous sub Before making herself a cup of Study and Resfdenl the problem. which includes regula Swt locally luU t11ne I part stances present in their medicine tion of hazardous waste producing "landfill tea," Seidman showed the ~LK.P , R.. 1rme Tra111 on l111e airline chests and utility closets. industries, the creation of environ· audience an oversized tea·bag filled • Flnandal Aki compule!S Home study and "People don't realize that mentally safe treatment facilities, with containers of motor oil, fentas· /Nalllble residenl 1ra1ning F1nanctal hazardous waste is a monumental source reduction and public partic tic, and oven cleaner. • Job Placement aid ava~able Job placement problem." commented Pat Costner, All thepanel members underlined Alllltlnce ISSIStance Natt0nal Hdqll'S. ipation to dispose of household l.Jghlouse Pl. Fl coordinator of the National Toxic hazardous waste. the gravity of the household 1-800-321-ma A.C.T. TRAVEL SCH Campaign for Greenpeace. HOll.S& hazardous waste problem and sug· THE HAAT SCHOOL hold hazardous waste generates six gesled education and source reduc (~M«rnbef million pounds of hazardo~ waste tion as a partial answer. NHSC) yearly, she said. "Most. people don't understand Costner and six panelists present what the term 'household ed "Operation Waste Not: A view hazardous waste.' covers," com of hazardous waste," at the Bright mented Downey, who suggested on Branch Library last Thursday. substituting plungers for Draino. COMMUNITY The forum addressed the political, "There are a lot of things in your economic and social impact of house that you just don't need." household hazardous waste. Substituting hazardous house MEETING Household hazardous products hold products with non-hazardous Kennedy Memorial Hospital are used in almost every room in ones is one solution. The Depart· the home. They include drain cl~ ment of Environmental Manage for Children er, tile polish, nail polish remover, ment publishes a pamphlet listing 30 Warren St., Brighton car wax, oil-based paint., Oea collars. substitutes for household air freshener, pool cleaner, bug HtlllSEHtlLll hazardous products which, they spray and moth balls. After these claim, are as effective and cheaper About: Additional Staff Parking products are used and "disposed HAZAl~lltlllS I.ban their toxic substitutes. Some of" they find their way back into substitutes include the old stand our bodies, according to a study bys: cedar chips in place of moth Wednesday, April 20. 1988 conducted by the National Human \\'ASTE 1 . balls; a mixture of vinegar, water 7:30 P.M. Adipose Tissue Survey, which test and club soda as a substiture for ed human tissues for toxic "Massachusetts is one of the few floor polish; and soapy water as a Cushing Conference Rooms products, concluding that toxins states that features programs sole substiture for insecticides. a.re present in 100 percent of the ly on hazardous waste collection," "People are using alternative Public Invited population. noted Gutenson, conducting educa products quite effectively." com· Costner explained that of the cur tion programs and providing sites mented Ginger Lawrence, research rent methods used to dispose of to collect waste. He said that 110 coordinator at. the Center for En hazardous waste. landfills and in· cities and towns througout the vironmental Research Management cineration, neither are totally ef· state have sponsored neighborhood at Tufts University."People think feetive. household waste collection days, that if something is new and STUDIO 1104 "Seventy-five percent of landfills one of which will be held locally in modern, it is more effective. Often leak," she said. "That's 100.000 the coming months. it is more expensive and Unisex Hair Care Center. landfills that are leaking. Incinera· "People don't relate what they hazardous." 1104 Comm. Ava, Allston tion, once thought to be the opti dump down their sink and what. Another answer is a more con mum solution we now know create they flush down their toilet to scientious consumption of the 739-1104 their own problems. creating three Boston Harbor," commented Lor hazardous wastes one chooses to million tons of incinerator ash per raine Downey, director of the En· consume, states the pamphlet. year." vironmental Department for Costumers are advised to purchase Bruce Houghton, executive vice Boston. "They think 'out of sight, no more than the amount needed president of the Houghton Chemi· out of mind.' " for a particular job and to donate cal Company, spoke of the eommer Downey mentioned the~ any additional product to someone ical process of disposing of chemical expenses of disposing of sludge, as who can use it rather than throw waste and spoke of the price one well the ever increasing scarcity of ing it away. pays for living in a technologically sites. In her skit describing of the advanced age. He mentioned the Many states, including Mas· dangers of household hazardouSc Haircuts: Mens $12 • Womens $14 tradeoffs of hazardous waste in the sachusette, ship their hazardous waste, Seidman warned: "Buy only Perms $45 & up • Colors $18 automobile industry, noting lhat wastes to other states or other what you need, use what you have while airbags offer an additional countries. and share when you're able, and Highlighting $35 • Manicures $8 safety feature. they pose a waste "Philadelphia tried to ship its in never buy the skull and crossbones We do hair the way you want Ill disposal problem. cinerator ash to Guyana Africa/' label." 20 % off any hair care service \vith this ad - Se habla Espanol -
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I\'\'\ ~asl\\ng\on S\. Brighton 782-6500 The driver of this gaeollne truck wu charged wtth driving under the iDfluenoe after he rolled lt coming Into Allston from the Man Pike last Sunday. 1'HOTO BY BRAD CAUCHON April 15, 1pss CITIZEN ITEM Page 7 AROUND TOWN Im _, ___ '-__ 1_ DARE- A delicious idea FOSTER HOMES NEEDED Bits and pi~ DARE Family Services is looking for individuals and fa· milies who are interested in caring for adolescents. Many Allston/Brighton "planners'' are working for these young people come from disrupted families and on adding a breakfast to the ''parade" in desperately need the support and nurturance of a stable Sept.ember. family environment. Although it's in the planning stages and a localion has yet to be chosen, it11 have DARE Family Services provides special training, finan· to be a large facility, easily accessible. cial reimbursement and 24 hour casework support. For in The breakfast, on the morning of the pa· formation on how you can make a difference, please call rade, will probably be patterned after Bil· 427-7346. Foster a teen a brighter future. ly Bulger's "St. Patty's Day" shindig. Services funded by the Mass. Department of Social With a ballpark figure of 150 people Services. projected on a first-come. first-served basis, there will be a minimal charge for tickets. Henry Ragin. with his sly wit, would be 55 Dimock Street • Roxbury, MA 02119 • Tel. (61n 427-7346 a perfect host (in the tradition of Bulger) to cross swords with our local politicians. Who knows? If the show is good enough measures to get rid of this nightmare. and the news day slow enough, we may wind up with some imnortant media ••• coverage. Sounds like a fun ti.me. Cache decision still pending at deadline. $gg·· * - • • • • • • · .ayear Two meetings on a proposed mental Brian McLaughlin is having a fund rais health facility at the Marine Hospital er at the K of C <>n Cambridge Street Satur grounds drew only three people. day night. buys Arrangements will be made to bring the Brochure, sign 8lld poster people make all proposal to local activist groups such as the money at elections. Well, a few bucks BAlA and Washington HeighLs meetings. goes for radio and television, too. It's ex· Sort of "if Moe won't come to the mountain pensive, they tell me. $}00,000. we'll bring the mountain to Moe." So it's up to the backers to bail them out.
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The CBC's regular monthly Also. next door neighbor Mar meeting was held on Tuesday of tignetti' s wants some conces· Spring Into this w$.k.at the Jackson-Mann sions from the community. This Community School. Though site needs an awful lot of work. many of our members could not They've done nothing for many attend due to previous commit· years so they must have saved up a large reserve for landscap· Roston Sports ments, the turnout was good with members coming in all ing. We look forward to having night and we also bad a couple this area landscaped also to of interesting visitors. Sen. complement the Staples sjte. Mike Barrett attended and indi4 cated a keen interest .in the bill· * * '* board issue. The CBC gave him While on this stretch of road, a copy of our recent study which the motel and pancake house are showed over 126 billboards, a couple more businesses who do many of which. th CBC con nothing to beautify the area. Ex· tends, are illegal Sen. Barrett tensive landscaping is needed on was enthusiastic and pledged to the front and back of these review the material and work properties. The CBC hopes with the community. We ap to meet with these businesses preciate his attendance and look soon. That should only take one forward to working with him in meeting since both are owned the future. by same person. Also present was Mr. Brian the McMahon.from Tara Corp. This is the agent for multi· "' * * millionaires David Mugar ~d The CBC has learned that, due Philip Haughey who own the to Rep. Galvin's efforts, the Catch early-round NBA basketball pfayof1 action With the shopping center where Staples MDC will plant or supply a large Celtics on SPORTSCHANNEL NEW ENGLAND. Watch is located on Soldiers Field the Bruins bid for the NHl:s Stanley Cup on NEW number of trees for the R<»id. Haughey bas failed to live ENGLAND SPORTS NETWORK. Allston-Brighton community. up to past promises to land· Baseball's back on Cabtev1sion. Catch early season hard scape and beautify the area. It The planning for the locations is ball excitement with the Red Sox on NEW ENGLAND in the works right now and we seems Tara Cozp. wants to build SPORTS NETWORK. And the Atlanta Braves on soon may have some very pret;. an extension of the building be SUPERSTATION TBS. Plus World Championship bo> C and M Sports EXPERT PARTY PLANNING 33 I Washington St. Delivery• Pick up• Guaranteed exact quantity• Ice• Party platters We Have-It All! Us.ed cleat salel Regularly S9.99 and SH.99 now S6.99 and s 12.99 •SPOTBILT •CONVERSE j\J\\ARlY~S FINE WINES• GOURMET FOODS• SPIRITS 787-1987 PERSONA CHECKS The Store 'With More For Less April 15, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM Page 11 The gI"eat trash debate By Carrie Milgrim stand. Citizen Item Start Iannella said that Vitale called and threa tened the Code Enforcement office's secre The fight is over trash. tary. This was followed by a phone call from Brighton Center's Woolworth's manager. Vil.ale's father who tried to reason with en John Vitale, has been complaining that he forcement officers. has been inundated wil.h littering fines by · Vitale admitted to Iannella that he had a former Woolworth's employee turned city violated the overloading regulations, but inspector, George Crowley. did not know what he could do about the Woolworth's had been ticketed four times situation. between Dec. 4, 1987 and Jan. 8, with fines Commercial companies, which are respon totalling $200. according to Code Enforce sible for their own garbage disposal, can ment Director Richard Iannella. Three of rent dumpsters by the month or week, or the four tickets for overloaded dumpsters can buy them. Woolworth's dumpsters are were written by Crowley, who worked for owned by Browning. Ferris Industries, one Woolworth's as a shipper/receiver for over of the industry's leading dumpster firms. .five years. Woolworth's bas cleaned up its "Crowley iB a good worker,'' said la.nnel· act, not having received any violations la who added lhat after the complaints. he since the one in January. had been moved to another detail. .I When contacted, Vitale told the Citizen This is not the first time t.haL Iannella'a Item that he had no comment. However, in Code Enforcement Plice have been in the attempts to clear some confusion in the middle of controversy. Since the lnspection Boston Herald he said that ha "did not say al Services Department office was estab that Crowley was fired'" and that Crowley lished two years ago, Iannella and his had "nothing against !Vitale], b~t rather, troops have been quite vigilenl enforcing (Crowley] had something against the the city's trash codes. While many company." merchants-and residents lwho have been Iannella found the situation "comical."' tagged with the white $15 tickets for ille He could not "believe it's come up so far gally dumping trash on city property) have after" the tickets had been issued, which, complained, their efforts have made some despite the complaints by Vitale, still effect. We're turning heads The dumpster behind Woolworth's in Brighton Center has been clean since Janu ~upercuts. ary. the manager saye. at 8'1'.AP1" .PHOTO BY J'ULIA BBAPIBO She'll try anything .. . once, And her opening line is usually "I want something different" So she comes to Superculs. For a cut that's as adventuresome as she is. Supercuts. The haircare salon for everyone. 'roung. Old. Hip. Square. And all points in between. Staffed with haircutting pros Who have a knack lor knowing how to give customers exactly what they want Time alter time. And keeping them looking good between cuts with haircare products from Paul Mitchell and Nexxus. For style. For service. Supercuts. It's simply sensational. Want to try Supercuts? Bring lhis ad with you and receive a free shampoo or blowdry with your haircut [ .tUpc1culli ] BOSTON City cleanup program The Pick.in' Up the Neighborhood 829 Boylston Slreel starts Sat. in Allston cleanup campaign was started last spring (next lo Paris Theatre) with the support of local business organi 236-0310 Allst:Dn- from Packard's Corner to Union zations. Over 135 cleanups were held M-F 9-8. Sat 9-7 Square-will be the focus of this year's first throughout Boston's neighborhoods last city-sponsored cleanup at the kickoff of the year; over 7,000 volunteers participated. BRIGHTON "Pickin' Up The Neighborhood" program These combined efforts hauled nearly 1,340 1083 Commonwealth.Ave. on Saturday, April 16. tons of debris from the city last year. A (in lhe Atrium) The cleanup will begiin at 9 a.m. and con· step-by-step guidebook on bow to organize 782-5290 tinue until 1 p.m. The date was chosen to a cleanup is available through the Mayor's M-F 9-9, Sat 9-7 coincide with the National Student Cam Office of Neighborhood Services at 725-8485. Cleanup posters, flyers and other CAMBRIDGE paign Against Hunger. The campaign. Twin City Plaza, 264 Mon. O'Brian Hwy. materials are also available. 2150 Mass Ave. which is student-run, sponsored a cleanup (\-7 mile from Ille Museum of Science) (al Rindge) with the city last year in which over 300 Cleanup dates will be assigned on a "first 666-1640 492-0067 area students participated. It is expected come, first served" basis. The ci&y provides M-F 9-9, Sat 9-7 M-f 9-8, Sal 9-7 that 600 students will participate this year. volunteers who have scheduled a cleanup ''The students' interest in both cleaning with Neighborhood Services with tools, up our city and the hunger issue is very manpower and true.ks to remove the gar commendable," said Mayor Raymond bage collected. The program will run Flynn. through November. Page 12 CITIZEN ITEM April 15, 1988 NEWS BRIEFS Squash club raises funds anniversary (which began with a Catholic Mass and several other events last Friday, April 8). for community causes On Saturday, 125 student volunteers will. be The Squash Club in Allston-Brighton will spon bused to 30 metropolitan Boston community work sor a fundra.iser for the bearing impaired on April sites to offer a gamut of services, from assisting I.be 30. Featuring Candice Copeland in a full-day com· elderly to building playgrounds. A Mass for the binat.ion of master classes and seminars, proceeds group, celebrated by BC President J. Donald Mo of the event. will go to On Our Way, a foundation n.an at the Church of the Immaculate Conception aimed at helping the community's bearing impaired in t.he South End {the original site of BC) and a com adults. munity dinner will follow. The Squash Club recently held The Bost.on Work· Upcoming events include: the Festival of Friend Out to raise money for Boston's homeless and the ship, April 2,q, which pairs handicapped youths with Allst.on·Brighton Food Pantry. Twenty of Boston's BC students in athletic competition. and World Fes best aerobics instructors led a three-hour class that tival Day, April 29, which benefits international attracted over 150 fitness entbusiasLs from the volunteer groups. greater New England Area. The participants donat ed over $2,000 in cash and a van full of food to the Bost.on Coalition for the Homeless and the Allston Brighton Food Pantry. BU receives the bounty of the sea, legally Mt. St. Joseph Academy Legal Sea Foods will feed over 10,000 students exams are this month and faculty in Boston University's seven dining halls next ThW'Sday, April 21. The menu will require Mount. Sa.int Joseph Academy in Brighton is cur· Brighton High School Headmaatel' Juliette Johnaon. 130 gallons of clam chowder, 2,000 pounds of fresh renlly accepting reservations from st.udents wish fish, 2,200 pounds of frencb fries and about 1,500 ing to take the school's entrance examination for pounds of cote slaw to feed the anticipated crowd. placement in the ninth grade for Sept.ember, 1988. A week before the event, Legal's Executive Chef, For more information on the April 16 and April 30 Jean.Jacques Paimblan.c of Medfield, will work with exams, call Carolyn Dwyer, Direct.or of Admissions schools scheduled for evaluation in 1990 with cur the BU staff to teach lhem how to prepare the fish nt 783-4747. rent commission policies and procedures. and fries Legal Sea Foods style. BU cooks will serYe The New England A.c.. ociation of Schools and Col the meal attired m I~gal hats and aprons. leges. founded in 1885. is lhe oldest accrediting in ''This is one of the bigge-.t days o{ the year for Brighton High officials the country and is recognized by the U.S. Depart BU Dining Services." said Paimblanc. ·'More stu attend education seminar ment of Education as a reliable agency to award ac dents eat in the university dining rooms.that day creditation to New England school . than at any other time during the year." Brighton High School officials Juliet&.e ,Johnson, .. The idoa started four yea.ns ago during a moot· Headmaster, William Quinn, Humanit.ic Depart· ing of the university's Food Service Committee,'' menL Head. Karen • ort.on, Language Ans teach r, Boston College continues explained Debra Chilton of Woburn. Administrative Charles Skidmore, Englli;h as a Second LMguage 125th birthday events Dielician at BU. "when a student a"ked for a more teacher and Tonda Walker. Special Education diversified me.nu:· teacher, recently took part in a Self-Study seminar Boston College has declared Saturday. April 16 MiJan Bedro~ian, former director of BU Dining sponsored by the Commission on Public Secondary to be Community Service Day-the highlight of Stu Services, conceived Lbe idea of bringing Legal Sea School of the New England Association of Schools dent Volunt~ Month. a late of April events Foods to campus. Bocause the first event. was so and Colleges. T~e seminar is designed to acquaint that. salutes BC's outreach program and also kicks popular, it has been repeat.ed annually for the past principals and steering committee members of off a year-long celebration of the university's !25th three years. THE JOSEPH M. SMITH COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER HAS AN IMPORTANT MESSAGE CONCERNING YOUR FAMILY'S HEALTH CARE PARTICJPA'rtNG NHP HOSPrrALS B1 1a.JeCominun11y Huhh Cen1cr The Arboor Hospiw Codman Squa." llcallh Center Beth Israel Hospiu.J Columbia Point It Muy Elim M~ck BOllOI.\ Cily Rospiul Dimock Comm1.11111y l!eahh Qncer Bri&ham .l\ Womm'a Hospilll DorcJiei1tr !louse ITcallh Cenitr Cambridae Hospiial East 0Mon N8lahborhood Heallh CenlCl Camey Hospital Harvard Street Nci&bbol1iood Heabh Childral·• Jiospiw Joseph M. 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AmbW!ofy Ca.re Cente:q'Bodoo City HO&Jiital This year you and your family can choose a new and better health insurance • CONVENJENCE Quality care right in your neighborhood! plan .. the Neighborhood Health Plan. • ADDED AVINGS No deductibles, co-payments and we are the only HMO that has 110 office visit charges! Tiie eighborhood Health Plan is Boston's newest and most familiar HMO because we grew up right in your own neighborhood. Although we are new, we • MORE BENEFITS All the benefits you would cxpec1 plus extras like work with the same doctors and nurses who know your community. And we have prescription drug coverage that includes uover-the an extra undcrsumding of your concerns that health professionals at other insur counter"medica1ions such as free cough and cold ance plans may nor. remedies! Here are some of Lhe mnny reasons to consider joining the Neighborhood Health So. if you want to become a pan of the newest health plan found in your neigh Plan: borhood, caJI the Neighborhood Health Plan today at 288-1293. April 15, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM Page 13 is inhabited by Louis S. Bradley. The Cops property owner, who reportedly said that the occupants of the-apartment Were hav continued from page 3 ing domestic problems, will seek a com plaint and a restraining order from Brighton District Court. • described as 5'10", 30-years-old and 185 lbs. The two grabbed the gold chain from his 0 neck and went through his pockets as he lay on the ground and then fled inbound on A guest of the Commowealtb Armory Commonwealth. Shelter was arrested at 5:25 Friday mom· ing for being a disorderly person and ille 0 gal possession of a dangerous weapon. Tony V. Wilson, 32, had a 4" buck knife A man dressed in a security goards' uni in the men's restroom. despite the prohibi form robbed a rental -car office on Bright t.ion of weapons on the property (which has on Avenue at gunpoint Monday afternoon. been used by the Pine Street Inn as an ov~ The suspect-described as a 25-year-old flow shelter for the homeless since Noveni· black male, 5'8'', unshaven with black ber, 1987). rimmed glasses-entered the 95 Brighton After a brief struggle with police and Ave. establishment, displayed a black hand some screaming by Wilson, he was arrest gun. and said "This is a robbery, give me ed and transported to Station 14. your money." The suspect fled on foot up Linden Street 0 after securing approximately $200 in cash. A search of the area was futile. A 19-year-old man was arrested ~or kid napping ltls 14-year-old girlfriend late 0 Saturday night after he violated a restrain ing order from Brighton District Court. Police arrested three males during Thurs Mario Baez reportedly entered the Win day's evening rush hour for larceny of a mo ship Street home, struck the girl's parents tor vehicle. heads and faces with his fists and broke the Police said Michael Grant, Michael' glass on the storm dool'. If your knowledge of Southwest cuisine begins and ends with a tortilla, Church and Dominnic Moru.zzi bailed out Baez then allegedly dragged the victim your taste buds are in for quite an education. of a stolen white Oldsmobile Cutlas, report by her hair down the back stairs and put Because from April 15th to May 31st. we'll be featuring the foods of ed stolen April 3, at the intersection of her into his white Hyundai against her will the Great Southwest in our Upper Crust Restaurant. Whh dishes like Cambridge Street and Storrow Drive. The and the will of her parents. Roast Poric Loin with tangy pumpkin seed sauce. Grilled Fresh Salmon three were pursued on foot, caught and He was arrested by Brookline police. Ac· with cl Black Bean Glantro sauce. And appetizing starters like Tortilla booked at Station 14. cording to Brighton police, Baez has been Soop with Smoked Duck and roasted Poblano peppers. You'll also get to sample recipes created by Brendan Walsh. Brendan, Moruzzi is also wanted on warrants for arrested for this type of offense before, in· an armed robbery. in East Boston and a master chef of Manhattan•s famous Arizona 206 restaurant, is one eluding once being extradicted from New of America's favorite experts on Southwest cuisine. And he has used daytime breaking and entering. Jersey. manx of the foqd items native to the area to create dishes you 're sure toenJoy. 0 Community Service Officer's Report So drop by. We'll show you that l ~The~ the hottest .thing about the Great Jpper rlJ t A Brighton man is suspected of attempt Officer Joe Parker reported that there Southwest isn't the desert. e> ed arson after neighbors entered bis apart were 11 houses and 23 motor vehicles bur For A Umited Tone Only! For any dining of two or GATEWAY CENTER ment Thursday evening finding the gas glarued this week, two persons arrested for party 320 Washington 5\l'C'l'I stove on with a lit candle nearby. driving under the influence and nine people more, briiig in this ad and receive Mass.. Tumptlcea1but17 $10.00 off the lower priced en Neighbors said that there was a strong arrested for public drinking. Newton, MA 617-527-8172 smell of gas coming from the first apart· ~. 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It would be a place to col· Cil.izen Item Staff lect, preserve and display New En· gland's sports heritage.'' As a kid l loved Willie '·Pudd.in' 1 scratch my bead. So what could be Head" Jones. He was God. For those wrongl Cowens looks down into his of you who don't. go back to lhe salad. Politics. Why does everything 1950's, "the Pod .. played third base break down into politics? "Mayor for the Philadelphia Phillies and had Flynn?" I ask. Cowens says. "I've one of the cleanest swings from the tried to meet with him. J t hasn't hair right hand side of lhe plate that you'll penedyet. we·vetalked to just about ever see. I stayed in love with ..Pud· everybody in City llall... This ii> clin' Read" Jones until sometime in (Stephen] Coyle's turf. Ray Flynn air 19&4 or 1965 when my father got me parently feels he has to be allowed to a job through a friend at Connie Mack do this thing." Stadium. Then I met Willie Jone~ . And I found out. how Number 6 got The picture becomes a bit cJearer. his nickname. Also there seems to be a problem with It wasn't long ago that J picked up the developer that the trustees of the a newspaper and read that Willie Sports Museum have chosen {a local Jones died. I read the obit twice in developer by the way, Hamlen·Collier) stunned disbelief. How could a and ihe one the city might have in 25-year old guy who had that picture mind. Dave Cowens. perfect swing stop living? Then I no Ah, the old skeptic in me. Click, ticed that a tear was trickling down click goes my mind. Dave Cow~ns my cheek. I guess, since I didn°t know wants to head up the Museum so that Jones as a real person, that I was as who may have twned in his greens b& I also noticed that Cowens was he'll have a new career. "How much much upset about. the lost innocence fore Benjie had bocome a full-fledged solickous of BenJ1e's inpur into the salary do you draw as Chairman of of youth as I was about. the fact that. Celtic devotee. conversation. or course, that might. the Board?" I ask, pen at the ready. a childhood hero was dead. Not to When I invited Dave Cowens to have been natural given the fact that. I can see the disappointment register mention the feat that I'm now almost lunch at Matt. Garrett's I was as Benjie has forgotten more about the in Cowens' eyes. When are these twice as old as "the Pud'' in his prime. much interested in Benjie's reaction NBA and the Celtics i.han 1 will ever dumb reporters gonna ever learn? But I was also upset that, unlike a to Big Red as I was in my own. Ben· know. But 1 think there was more to There are still some good guys out lot of young people who worship jie knew everything there was to it. Cowens seems as much at ease with there. "Nothing," Cowens answers. sports stars and those rock 'n roll know about the guy: where he played kids 8tJ he is with adults. I like a "It's jusL a labor of love. List.en, I'm jerks, I no longer had any heroes. My college ball: Florida State; where he sports figure who likes kid.S. Sports an issue oriented guy. First, there was last genuine hero was John F. Kenne last played besides Boston: the Mil· figures like Reggie J ac.kson (who have the Prowse Farm lbing. I got out dy. When I pulled t.hat. lever for JFK wau.kee Bucks; where be coached: a been reported to treat youngsters front on Lhat because people know the in 1960 against the Trickster to cast team l 've never beard of (yes sports badly). aren't worth a passing name and a lot of good people I know my very first vote, l felt a power and fans, I now know that Cowens was a thought in my book. cared about it. l like being involved e rush that I have never again ex· player-coach for the Celtics in 1978). My first question, after Cowens or in the community." perienced at the ballot box. Benjie even knew that Cowens was dered a bowl of gumbo. a tossed salad Why is Cowens hot for this project? Of course, now that I have spent. going around pushing for a new loca· and bot tea. was about the game it Cowens sees sports as the great link many years studying and teaching tion for the New England Sports se.l!. Is there life after being a su~ to reaching kids. Overachievers as about JFK and his era, I have come M oseum (when l didn "t even know star Boston Celtic? Cowens well as underachievers. He says, "ln to learn with certainty t.hat all of us there was an old location). So Benjie apparently has fielded that one before sports you seem to be able to trigger are, alas, all t;oo human. We are all was going to be an invaluable asset t.o and answers quickly: "I miss the an interest in kids who seem to have only fragile subjects to the foibles of this column. cameraderie with t.he people, Not the some problem in conforming." Co a cruel and unrelenting fate. There Confession; I root. for the Celtics ex· game itself... wens views the tuseum as an educa· was one simple lesson to take away cept when they play the 76tl!. Then I What has he been doing since be left tional tool as well as a place to from Camelot-that no one, not even fall strangely silent. Tribal loyalties the Celtics? A basketball camp at Re preserve sports cull.Ure. a president of the United Stat.es, is ir die hard. I've watched the Celts over gis College every summer and some I don't know whether Dave Cowens replacable and nobody is all that im· the years-but hardly with the en· insurance work. And-perfect will get his Sports Museum. He is port.ant except to t.he people who thusiasm of a dyed·in·the-wool Boston segue-trying to get. the New En· preparing an editorial reply to Chan· really know and love them. fan. If I hadn't been given free tick· gland Sports Museum now housed on nel 5's Jim Coppersmith who opted Sometime in the mid·l960's. thank· et.s to the 5th World Series game in Soldiers Field Road at Christian Hert· for the pirate ship and I.old the Sports fully, I gave up my quest for heroes. '86, l still would never have seen a fall er Park moved to the Custom House Museum that it should be located at But whenever I am around a young classic. Maybe it was hypocritical to downtown. Boston Garden (hardly the alcohol· kid who loves an athlete with all the taunt Mookie Wilson the way I did. OK. That's what Dave Cowens real· free atmosphere needed that would be trust and faith that. is only entrusted But what the heck. I had a good time ly wants to talk about. So here it is most conducive to a positive learning 0 • to the hearts of the young, I must ad· (see beck"-shows I'm reverting to in a nutshell. There are three possibil· experience for kids). But I do know mit I still become a little wistful. And fourteen). ities for the Custom House: a pirate that when we were walking down Har not a little bit jealou8. You see, 1 still Dave Cowens is one big guy. That's ship (don't ask me how you build a vard Street back to the of!ice. I asked love the Lone Ranger, Tarzan. Bat the first thing you notice. The second ship a mile and a half from the water!t; Benjie what he thought about Dave man and Superman and I hope I al thing I noticed is that he is a nice guy. another crusty thing called The Muse Cowens. "I like him," Benjie said. ways will How do I know that in ten minut.es? um of the City of Boston or the New .. He really seems like a nice guy. I I have a friend. His name is Benjie. Because when I kibbitzed with our England Sports Museum. Cowens think he likes kids. Did yon see how The last time I wrote about Benjie, he photographer Julia Shapiro (with says, ''What we're trying to do is cre he kept asking me what I thought met his idol Larry Bird. Some of you whom I am forever kibbitz.ing), Co ate a library and resource center that about different things?" may recall it wasn't. everything Ben· wens thought I was being serious and is part of the heritage of New En· Yeah, Benjie, I saw. I liked him too. jie had hoped it would be. So I was a he went out of bis way to be extra nice gland. Sports! We need a place to do A lot. Dave Cowens is the genuine ar little curious bow Benjie would react to her when he thought I was being that. The place is available, perfect ticle. The heck with "Puddin' Head'' to another hero of bis-a Celtic great a bit of a jerk. and it is just right. for us to come Jones. galleries in Washington, D.C. and New York State. Art Exposition takes place •l p.m. Film animator Karen Aqua will discuss Sat. at Brighton library and show examples of her work. Aqua's films, which include Nine Liues, Yours for the Taking, V-is-a· Vis, The Allston-Bright.on Art Exposition will take Heavenly Bodies end Penetralia have been shown place on Saturday, April 16 at the Brighton Branch on Home Box. O!fioe, Showtime, USA Cable Net. Llllrary, 40 Academy Hill Read in Brighton Center. work, WNET and on Yugoslavian television. Sheis Works by Allston and Brighton artist.s will be on currently a lecturer in animation at. Boston College. exhSbit in the hl>rary througbDat the day. The day's • 2 p..m. Beadcraft artist and jewelry designer Lisa events, which are all free and open to the public, in- G. Woll will look at. beading in America. from its clude the following: • origins to the present day, along with slides, discus • 12 noon-1 p.m. A reception will be held honQl' sion of technique and samples of her work. Wolf ing the exhibitors and speakers. teaches her craft at numerous art. and adult educa· •12 noon. The Honors Woodwind Quintet of the tion centers in the Boston area. She is especially in· New Engiand Conservatory of Music will play selec· terested in the sacred and ceremonial aspects of tions af classical music. The quintet's members are: craft. Kathleen O'Donnell, Oute, Michelle Vigneau, oboe. · • 3 p.m. Playwright and producer Beverly Creasey Ron Chen·Zion, clarinet.. Dan D 'Andrea, bassoon. will present her new play. A Woman's Place, or Four and Kristin Jurkscheit, born. Easy Steps to Assertiveness. Creasey, who is Presi· • 12:30·3:30 p.m. Printer, painter and muralist dent of Playwright's Platform, has produced four Sasja Lucas will paint in the lobby. Lucas has ex· festivals of original plays. Her play, Mate in Two hibited locally at the Puddingstone Gallery, the Zar Brfcbton playwright Beverly Creaaey will speak Moves: The Chess Pia)•, is currently in production buck Gallery and Cornwall Open Studios, as well as at the An E%posltion on Saturday. in New York City at the Actor's Outlet Company. . . April 15, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM. Page 15 REMEMBER WHEN? Good Samaritans walk among_us still By Gertrude Torngren Pineo cence marks their lifestyle and they stopped in the middle of the thorough Doesn't it warm the cockles of your Citizen Item Contributor care not a whit about their fellow:men. fare, called to a young couple who heart. to realize that there are still a Where have all the ''Good Sa.marl· were passing by and asked diredions few humanitarians left, in this mixed· "It's a great bigwonderfut world." tans" gone?il to Brigham Hospital. up world we live in? To he.ar the song-writers tell it, you'd When someone falls through the ice, They didn't waste time but hailed The milk of human kindness still really think it was so, but from where. a group of spectators stand on the a cab and gently placed hime in the flows, but we don't always hear about I sit, it jsn'texactly a garden of Eden. bridge or enbankment to watch the back seat. The driver sped to the med it. The "givers" and therescures, who Things seem to have gone awry in proceedings. A human beingis about ical building while the benefactors fol· are truly sincere, don't want publici· more ways than one. to drown, but rarely does anyone take lowed,in the patient's car. They made ty.... they prefer to remain anony· We storm and rage against the so the plunge to rescue them. They'd certain that the suffering person was mous. That's why "The Good ciety in which we live, knowing full rather wait for th.a' police or firemen. admitted safely, then dropped off his Samaritan" rarely makes the well that there's not much we can do But, thank the Good Lord, there is keys at hospital security. Not until headlines. about it. There's a jungle out there another side to the picture. Once in a this had been accomplished did they I assume that's why the daily news and if want to survive in it, we must while, you read in the papers of the quietly disappear. The cabbie never presents all the gory details of crime learn to cope with thieves and rapists, unsung heroes who come to the aid of mentioned the fare; he simply deli· and corruption; the kids who carry trigger-happy pnl\ks and half-crazed a stranget in trouble. It sort of re vered the " heart man" to the emer guns to the classroom; the stabbings. drug addicts. stores one's faith in human nature. gency staff and without a word purse-snatching and all the rest. The It's most apparent that hall of the returned to his cab. victims are usually the vulnerable human~ is seli-centered, c-0ncerned A few years ago, a gentleman from The patient was improving, at last aged and infirm, who don't dare ven· only with their own interests. Theirs Needham was stricken while behlnd report. On his last birthday, he ture from their barricaded homes af· is a devil-may-care attitude about in· the wheel of his car on Newbury celebrated being alive and blessed b& ter dark.. .or even after school lets out, justice, deprivation and corruption. Street in the Back Bay. He was a cause of the help of "special people' ' in broad daylight. There is no sense of compunction for heart transplant recipient and knew that he will probably never know. He But, rest assured, the Good Samar· the needy, the handicapped, the elder all the signs of danger. When his would like to say "Thank You.·• itBD still walks among us, although we ly or unemployed. 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My life long goal has been to perpetuate Jewish culture through song, using trained voices of the highest caliber, and performing in settings range from the that and free concerts for children to local synagogues to major concert balls. Jews • Aren't other singing groups in the T W • Boston area also doing that? By Martin S. Goldman Jacobson: Yes, but Zamir is the only major chorus in New England, and one of only four nationwide, he mail has been unusually nasty this whose repetoire is as varied as the periods end coun· week. One unsigned note called me a tries in which Jews have lived. spanning centuries uJesse" basher. Another letter took and including works from both the Aakhenazic and umbrage at my appelation of Jackson Sep bardic traditions. Zamir is like a musical muse as "Rev. Hustle." It is true. It is no um of Judaica boasting a strong permanent collec secretT that. I do not like Jesse Jackson. Not only tion and then excit.iilg special exlu'bits, such as an do I not. like him for President of the United exploration of early Jewish mllSic folk or an all Rus States, I would be just as vituperative if he were sian program. a candidate for the Boston City Council or selectman-two other posts for which. I find him •·~'t Zamir also focus on I raeli · to be supremely unqualified. T W • mumc? As Jesse Jack.son is poised for his final week of campaigning in the New York Democratic Jacobson: Indeed. Even in the larger community, primacy where there are so many Jewish voters we are unique in that we commission and showcase (26 percent of New York City's vote is Jewish and dynamic works by prominent and emerging Israeli the figure is made substantially more importanL composers and songwrit.ei-s. All year we've been by the fact Lhat Jews turn out to vote in large celebrating the 40t.b annJversary of the State of ls· numbers), it would be approprlate to examine the rael by focusing on the finest and most creative candidate's record in regard to the Jewish com· choral compositions and songs from the past. 40 munity. years. • The Globe's music critic labelled T W • Zamir ''•virtuoso outfit,'' and Zamir FEATURE has received numerous prestigious awards. WbeTe do the 400 singer wbo perform in yoUl' ens~mble First, be assured that. my intense dislike of come Crom? Rev. Hustle is not personal I have met him three times in my life, spoken to him twice, interviewed Jacobson~ Zamir has grown from an informal group him briefly once and have no peTsonal animosi· of college students with an int.erest in Jewish mus· ty toward the man. ic to an organization of international significance Even Lhough the first time I spoke with Jack· that's in the forefront of Jewish musical culture. But son in 1974 over the phone from Washington, the singers, though of cowse older and more ma· D.C. to Chicago involved a rather unpleasant ex CLOSE-UP ture artists, still donate their talents. They compete change (negotiating how much money Jackson at an audition, and if selected they work hard and and his retinue could expect the government to long, never earning a penny. They even pay for most shell out for his coming down to Washington as of their travel costs. a conference speaker), I understood then, as I un· derstand now, that Jesse's bottom line has al· ways been essentially the same. Jesse's bottom Joshua wbi~ line is Jesse. • Speaking of Zamir is towing That is why so many black leaders have been T W • Israel soon isn't it? uncomfortable with Jesse Jackson over the years. Did you know, for example. that Rev. Ralph Jacobson.: Yes, in August we'll be at the Zimriyah Jacobson Abernathy, second in the Southern Christian Choral Festival in Jerusalem. Seven hundred Leadership Conference command to Dr. Martin singers have been invited from all over the world. Luther King. Jr., cannot stomach Jesse Jackson? We've been "goodwill ambassadors' ' in Israel be By Carol Kort Abernathy penned the introduction to the book fore. By the way, we have appeared with the Jerusa· Jesse Jackson and th.e Politics ofRace by two t» Over the past 20 years, New England has been !em Symphony and Israel Philharmonic orchestras litical scientists who were outspokenly critical of enriched musically and culturally because of the vi· under the batons of Zubin Mehta and Daniel the Jackson political phenomenon. Or that At Barenboim.. sion.s and unswerving dedication of JOSHUA lanta Mayor Andrew Young, former UN ambas· JACOBSON, the talented music director and con sador during the Carter administration (where ductor of Zamir Chorale of Boston. Dr. Jacobson, • With the C\ll'J'ent political crisis in Is Jackson gleaned so much press by blaming Jews who also serves as chairman of the department of T W • rael, does Zamir. feel any ram.Ul· when be was fired in 1979), has no time for the music at Northeastern and director of the universi· cations? man? Nab, you didn't know that. Because the me ty's choral program, founded the award·winning dia may well play up the sexy problems that Chorale that specializes in the music of Israel as well Jacobson: We are not political, but many of the Jesse has with Jews, but those same knee-jerk as all types of choral music representative of a rich texts we perform are written by Israeli composers media liberals will never get into the mucky in· Jewish culture. Jacobson recently put down his ba· celebrating the birth of the State. Of course, when ternecine world of Black politics where you can ton to spend a few minutes talking about the es· we're on stage we are singing music not words. The really get down and dirty if you understand the t.eemed ensemble with This Week. music is the message. game. Go to a library sometime and look up Jesse JacksoTL· the Man, the Myth and the Mouement • Do you feel differently when you are by Barbara Reynolds, a black journalist out of T w : What does Zamir mean? T W • conducting a piece at Northeastern, Chicago. If you can find it. say a work such as The Messiah? My very real probJem with Jesse Jackson stems from the record. The record does not lie. Jacobson: No. If it's glorious well--sung music, I feel Jesse Jackson is not only having problems with Jacobson: Appropriately it means "nightingale" in it as a spiritually uplifting experience. There is no Jews in New York City. Jesse Jackson has severe · Hebrew. Remember the verses from "Song of conflict whatsoever. problems with Jews everywhere-and with any· Songs"? "For, lo, the winter is pastltbe rain is over one who considers themselves an informed friend and gone/The flowers appear on the earthfl'he time contin~d on page 24 to Jewish issues. of the nightingale (singing birds) is come ... " continued on page 24 THE MARKETPLACE BEGINS ON PAGE 32 Page 24 CITIZEN ITEM April 15, 1988 teric motets and madrigals written by a l 7t.h • Can't you get money from the Jew· century Jewish Italian composer. works by the late T W • isb Federation, as other cultural Jacobson great Israeli composer Paul Ben·Haim's. master· groups do? continued from page 2S works of holiness from the 19th century synagogues of Europe (Zami.r has released an album based on Jacobson: Unfortunately, we're not funded by the that performance), Naomi Shemer's popular Jewish Federation at all, although other Zamirs in "Yerushalayim Shel Zahav.'' or Leonard Bernstein's other major cities are. We depend solely on the tick· Do you ever combine the two worlds, "Chichester Psalm." Also, we're perfectionists. et sales and private and corporate contributions, • which are never adequate in spite of many gener· • Christian and Jewish? T W ous patrons. Jacobson: Actually Zamir has been involved in a ser· • Let's talk about Zam.ir's image. You ies of interracial/interfaith performances with the T W • don't conduct in folk costume. and • You graduated cum laude in music New Temple Singers, one of New England's out· although you give free children' ti performances at T W • from Harvard, you're chairman of a standing Black Gospel Choirs. At our last "Celebra· Newton's Jewish Community Cent.er, whe.re you are department at Northeastern, you have a docto:rate tion of Unity" concert, First Baptist Church in the resident chol118, don't you pttfer your formal in choral conducting. Why is Zamir, a volunteer or Newton was packed. ucitals at Jordan Hall? ganization that can barely pay the rent for the baJlB ~ which it sings, t-0p-priority for you? • Zamir was recently invited to per· Jacobson: Look, we consider ourselves to be a top T W • form at the American Choral Direc notch chorale that can compete with the best of Jacobson: Because Zamir is a community with an tor's Association Conference in Philadelphia. How them. We take ourselves seriously. I dress in a tux amazing dedication to music that expresses Jewish did that go? edo at Jordan Hall, jast as the conductor of the ness and our magnificent Jewish choral heritage in Masterworks Chorale would. a way that I love. Because we're keeping the zm.irot Jacobson: Very well. We received a standing ova· going through history and helping to promote a tion, which is most unusual at a workshop. • But can Zamir afford to rut JordBD spiritual unity of diverse people. Because no one else T W • Hall? is doing it. And because it's very gratifying. T w :What 's Zam.ir1s secret to success? Jacobson: We can't, really, and we may have to NOTE: The next Zamir Chorale of Boston perfor· Jacobson: I think it's because of the music we are move. Too bad because it's an intimate hall with mance will be held at Jordon Hall, in celebration of singing. We are equally comfortable with "My Yid~ splendid acoustics. We need that kind of exposure the independence of Israel, on June 5. For details, dishe Momma" and "Hav-ah Nagila" as with eso- and we deserve it, professionally. please call 734·8742. • er allies, the American Jewish community." Jesse In addition. Jackson over the years, has cultivat· continued from page 23 ed ties with pro-Arab propaganda groups. Now there is nothing intrinsically wrong with having New York Mayor Ed Koch is sometimes off the Arab-American friends-unless your motive is to tie wall. &t Koch is right on the money when he said into Arab monies from the Middle East. • that any Jew would have to be "crazy" to vote for In his efforts to pressure (extort?) Arab-American Jesse Jackson. And if the Democratic party expects money into his treasury, J ac.kson bas also opened Jews to stay· in the fold. the Democrats and Mike relationships with nations that have as their stat Dukakis in particular. will ultimately have to deal ed policy the destruction of the state of Israel. with the Jackson equation. It will not go away as lf you take aid and comfort from my enemy, then Walter Mondale learned so painfully in 1984. you are by definition, my-enemy also. You can never Forget about Louis Farrakhan, forget about be my president. "Hymies and Hymietown," and some foreign poll· The ADL fact sheet on Jackson is 19 pages long. cy issues in the Middle East. That's the old news. I will make it available at cost (xeroxing, postage) The Jackson bustle beg,an jus t days after the as· t.o anyone who wants it. The two biographies of sassination of Rev. King in 1968. Jesse had to step Jackson tell the story as well. And there is so much out front; he had to put some distance between him· more: self and other black leadership in the mad scram· •Jackson's unauthorized foreign policy interven· hle to inherit the mantle of the Dreamer. Lion (meddling?) where he has met with and kissed King. you will recall, was moving his base to (yecch I) PLO chief, Y asser Arafat, Syria's murder· Chicago. King had already clashed with white bigots ous Assad-now that's a kiss and a half! (yeah, he in some of Chicago's ethnic enclaves and was prepar got Lt. Goodman out of Syria-big deal! As if As ing to combine his anti-Viet Nam war stance with sad wouldn't do anything to embarrass the 0.$.), a broad-based national poor people's social program Cuba's Fidel Castro, PLO representative Zehcli Ter to be launched from a northern city-Chicago. zi, and other officials of governments that the State A few days after King was assassinated. Jackson Uepartment would rather deal with through official was appearing in Chicago waving "the bloody shirt" channels. Jackson's meddling in American foreign in front of crowds and haranguing them with the policy which continued right up to last week with lie that he had heard King's last words while cra his unauthorized contact with Panama's Noriega is dling the dying civil rights leader in his arms (thus without a doubt the most egregious effort at self· the white shirt stained with the martyr's blood). promotion that the country has witnessed since Aa· Jackson was, of course, nowhete near King when he ron Burr iced Alexander Hamilton by the shores of was shot and all observers of the assassination Bev. JeBJ1Je Jacluwn Monmout.h, New Jersey and then gave out inter I are in agreement that in the frantic time between views to the press. King's shooting and the mad rush to the hospital, • Jackson's obscene statements relating to the Jackson never went near King. hardly the tickets Jackson needed to ride. Holocaust where he told a reporter, "I'm sick and That.story is not apocraphyl and is important in· That big break came in 1979 wbeD Andrew Young tired of hearing about the Holocaust." What would asmuch as it is a reflection of the character of the resigned from the UN. The Anti-Defamation League Jackson say to a candidate for President who might man Jesse Jackson became as he moved his own of B'nai B 'rith, one of the most respected Jewish say he's sick and &ired of hearing about slavery? operation to Chicago. The "bloody shirt" was only civil rights agencies in the country, put out a con •Taking money from Libya's Khadaffy for Ope?' the :first of an endless string of hustles- hustles that fidential fact sheet on J esse Jackson in 1983. In ation PUSH. In 1980 the Libyan charge d'affaires included lying, possible misappropriation of funds 1984, when Jackson launched bis first presidential Ali Houderi gave Jackson a gift of $10,000. Jack· and what Jackson might have called "pressure" but campaign, the ADL leaked it t-0 selected friends in son called Houderi "a friend. " in any other book was downright extortion- like the the media and in governmen~ This ADL report was • Finally, just in case you might think the J esse time he threatened beer and soda companies like undertaken after black leaders approached the ADL Jackson you are watching in 1988 is a "new" model, Seven·Up with a national black boycott unless the confidentially to ask the organization to take the think again. The editors of Tikkun, a leftist Jewish bottling companies came across with jobs and point against Jackson. magazine, invited Jackson to meet with them so money that Jackson would ultimately control. The ADL reported that Jackson's actions in the that they could get by his past statements and be Jackson's big break came in the early 1970's when Young affair were on three tracks: 1) Jackson sug· gin afresh this election year. By the end of the mee~ Time put his angry Afroed countenance on their gested that American Jews were responsible for ing editor Michael Lerner told friends that be was coyer along with a generally favorable story about Young's ouster (not even Andrew Young sugges~ astounded at Jackson's insensitivity to Jewish is· Jackson's activities with Operation PUSH (People ed that preposterous notion)~ 2) Jackson warned sues and the things Jews care about. While Lerner United to Save HUlnanity) in Chicago. Forget about that Black-Jewish relations were extremely .st.rained did not go so far as to call Jackson an anti-Semite, the fact that between $~3 million federal has dis· (now, through his Jewish campaign manager Ger· the magazine, politically as le~ as Jackson, has re appeared in the PUSH coffers and has never been ald Austin, Jackson is suggesting that "mutual un· fused to run anything positive relating to a Jack· accounted for. This guy, who couldn't even keep bis derstanding" and a healing process have taken place son candidacy because cf statements Jackson made PUSH funds straight, wants to take over the fed· even though Jackson is afraid to meet with the same this year about Israel and American Jews. Read eral government and a budget that staggers the im· New York Jewish leaders, the Conference of Presi Tikkun on Rev. Hustle. ngination! dents of Major J ewish Organizations, that Gov. The bott.om line is that Jews and their friends got;. With the imprilnatur of the leading mainstream Dukakis met with last Monday); 3) Jackson felt that ta do their homework on Rev. Hustle. I'm not sure press, it wasn't difficult for Jackson to break out Young had done no wrong (even though in meeting he's a bigot. But I don't really care. I am sure that of his Chicago confines. He began to show up on any with PLO representatives, Ambassador Young had he bas uttered some incredibly bigoted public and all TV and radio talk shows, he was the featured violated the policies and instructions of bis statements-and I'm not just whistling Hymie here. speaker at black conferences and, for a time, Jesse government). I am sure that hajs the slickest thing in U.S. polit· even went Hollywood. In 1978 or 1979 he appeared In the weeks that followed the Yoong resignation, ics since Huey Long. I am also sure that on the as himseU on the old Lou Grant TV show where Ed Jackson's inflammatory public statements regard· things I care about as a Jew and as an American Asner turned him int.o a genuine hero of a youth cul· ing Jews bordered the obscene. At a New York City (see The New Republic, July 30, 1984 on Jackson's tu.re that had no historic recollection of who Jack· press conference, Jackson accused the Jewish com Cuba tour for example), that Jesse Jackson is out son had been or what he was up to. munity of opposing blacks on initiatives deemed vi· to lunch. And that any Democrat dumb enough to But all that exposure (Time, insipid Philsy Dona· tal to black survival- most notably the legal battles tout Jackson's candidacy for president or vice hue, Merv, Lou Grant et al) was still not enough. over affirmative action. J ack_son is quoted as say· president is not the kind of Democrat who will ever Jackson needed a lever t.o spring him full blown onto ing thllt resistance to black progress had not been get my support. Are you Republicans listening? Ge the national scene. The one-shot media spurts were coming from the Ku Klux Klan but from "our form- orge? Are you out there?• ' April 15, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM Page 25 THEATER Sing Song Nostalgic plays are a tricky business. When.rose colored glasses reflect their point. of view, int-0lera· ble sentimentality results. Still, a commemorative drama should not sidestep affectionate reminiscence as it tries to be honest. Perhaps the late C.P. Tay· lor (who dies in 1983) was particularly mindful oi these considerations when be wrote b.i8 best-known work, And a Nightingal~ Sang. His play is a rich memory piece t hat will survive an uneven Nicker· son Theatre Production. Nightingale, in fact, focuses on much more than \ bittersweet memories of an English fmaily weather Newscastle-on~Tyne Alioe Manning, WJlllam Converse·Boberts and Peter Crombie In.Big TJme: Bcenes From a ing World War Two. The Stotts Se.rv1De Economy win the war along with their countrymen, but the most important victory in Taylor's play is that of daughter Helen. If England fights five years for: freedom, adult Helen's war for personal identity is well under way as Act I begins. Like Reddin's Paul, Helen is good at making de Big Time Song cisions for other people but bad at taking control of her own life. Unlike Paul, .she grows through a Big Time: Scenes uom a Ser.vice Economy. A satire world and the importance of 'fluff' stories to local relationship thanks to which she can declare: "Now by Keith Reddin. With William Converse-Roberts, news broadcasts. Perhaps Big Time's most apropos I know I deserve somebQdy be&Ler." As she narrates Alice Manning, Peter Crombie, Sandra Shipley. remark is Paul's description of watching an airline her rise to emotional freedom, Helen describes American Repertory Tbeatril, New Stage Series. movie without headphones. What. he has are "just with period song-the strength of her family life in Hasty Pudding Theatre, 12 Holyoke St., Cambridge. . peoples' mouths moYing." But then, his experience the face of the Nazi blitz. in the air is not radically different from his life on Part of the. play's endearing nature lies in the And a Nightiogale Sang. A drama by C.P. Taylol'. the grolllld. characterization of that family. Peggy {Maml may With Dorothy Gallagher-, Frances West, T.roy Sieg· Orchestrating Big Time's many brief but reveal· seem like a religious fundamentalist obsessed with fried amd Niels Miller. Nickerson Theatre, 30 Accord ing episodes with alternating rockand classical mus statues and icollS, but her religiosity is rooted in Park Drive, Norwell Through May 7. ic, Reddin is equally sharp with his characters' love. Husband "Coal Man" George champions En language. There are knowing references to "inter· gland's Communist party, but his patriotism is face," "unofficial feelers" and "power lunch.'' Es never doubted. Moreover, Playwright Taylor under pedall:y telli.Qg are Paul and Fran's 'conversations,' scores Nightingale's une.xtraol'dinary family hap which amount to little more than news about a new penings wiht George's piano and song renditions of aat year, American Repertory Theatre such standards as "That Old Feeling" and "The turned Pirandello's biting suit or an upfum.ing appointment. Reddin's big Right You White Cliffs of Dover." Eooentric Grandpa Andie Are (If You Think You Are) into a news is that bis characters are strictly small time people. prepares a shelter respirato.i: for his cat j ust in case wrongheadedly yuppified comedy. and analyzes life with the profundity of an armchair Now, with the irony of what might be Director Steven Schachter bas caught the sight, philosopher. Indecisive yollllg sister Joyce depends called reverse symmetry, the first of sound and style of Reddin's brief but timely indict on confidant Helen's advice both before and after Ltwo stagiDgs in its New Sta,ges series makes par· ment in a first-rate ensemble performance (with~ her marriage to Erie, a lively Royal Air Force recruit tial amends. Important young satirist Keith Red· exception). William Converse-Roberts makes Paul arrestingly disoriented after a narrow escape from and the person who introduces Helen to Norman. din (Rum and Cok.e and ThfJ H ighest Standard of Given the unpredictable goings-on at the Stotts LiVing) has savaged that same Yuppiedom's sub a Middle Eastern coup yet maddeningly ultracon· household and the tender lyricism of Helen's nar· culture of international banking in a darkly hu· fident as be moves close.r and closer to an advisory rative, Nightingale should effortlessly sing its tale morous drama crisply produced at Hasty Pudding position at the Oval Office. As msocnre Fran, Alice of memoty. Yet director Nora Hussey fails to give Theatre, the series' annual home. Big Time: Scenes Manning has the play•s most sympathetic role and the Nickmw:n staging the pacing and .flavor it needs from a Seruice Economy may be a short play, but does a lot with it.. Her performance as his girlfriend and the ensemble playing it deserves. Reddin and this New Stages offering are long on combines street-smart toughness and winning vul· talent. If the skill of Taylor's dialogue sometimes eomes nerab,ility. Peter Crombie makes a convincing through, credit Dorothy Gallagher as Helen and change from casually dressed photo artist to jack Frances West as Peggy. Not definitive where San· JULES BECKER eted publicizer of his own hack work. dra Shipley's was iJ1 a heartfelt earJWr production Uncompromisingly critical of success based on a The suppot;ting cast are generally effilctive. Har at the Lyric Stage, Gallagher's Helen does captur'9 commitment to money rather than human value, ry $. Murphy's straightforward minister of finance the heroine's tough-minded goodness. West is a Big 'rime scores insights worthy of Italy's great.est Hassan, Thomas Derm.h's unctuous banker Ted and natural as her no-nonsense but caring mother. The twentieth century dramatist. Reddio's play could Stuart Zamsky and John Lathen'sArab rebals are other good performance is Troy Siegfried's some easily be retitled Rich You Are {lf You Think You effective. Only Sandra Shipley, an otherwise first times stoic, sometimes strongwilled George. Are). With inspired economic brushstrokes, he rate actress, resorts to unnecessary mugging and The problem lies with the supporting players, who paints a portrait of a hellish world where fast track· exaggerated, delivery as Diane, Paul's ambitious col share a half-hearted approach to their roles. Niels ers in fin.a:nce. journalism, photography and govern· league. The ongoing ~tory of ber family's disappear· Miller resorts to trademark slouching, slumped ment "can be honest in the only thing that ance into death produces a subtle contrast with shoulders and magging as Andie. Allyn 13urrows counts- money." Paul's search for home, but Shipley magnifies it gives Eric more vitality in Act II, but his early work Big Time focuses on three of these soulless peo shamelessly. makes the play's most e¥troverted character sur· ple. Banker Paul shuttles regularly around the world Bill Clarke's set.slXlakecleveruseofblock·likewall prisingly reserved. M.H. Rogers makes solittle of for million and billion dollar deals involving quick· compartments in which Paul aod Fran store the Norman that theatergoers may wonder how Helen ly e%ecut.ed electronic transfers of currency. His live 'things' of their lives. Roche Soboi~style furniture became interested in him. Julie Flood gives Joyce in lover Fran i.s dissatisfied with her graphics job in contemporary metal and leather·give the New all of t..be feistiness of a television sitcom sibling. at Newsweek, tired of tagging along after Paul and York and Washington scenes of the play a clearly Don Soule's set does full justice to the drama's unhappy always having to be at home waiting for defined trenci.iness. period charm. Leslie Tilly's lighting is effective. him to return from talks with such leaders as 'Mr. Meeting at a restaurant, Paul and Peter conclude Offering a fatalistic view of humanity, Grandpa Mexico,' 'Mr. Argentina' and 'Mr. Venezuela.' As "We're bac1c on track." As human beings they are contenda, "We're all just bits of life dancing away a result of her unf~g routjne, she secretly takes not, but ART's Big 'llme: Scenes from a Service until we burn ourselves out." Even if he's right, the up with their photo-j<>urnalist friend Peter. Initial· Economy is as sleek and swift getting to its points Nickerson dance ought to have more spirit. As is, ly snapping serious work dealing with political up as Fra:noo·s GTande Vitesse train. it does not set its stage on fire. • heavals and international pl'oblems, he ends up finding excitement in shots of Molly Ringwald eat· ing shrimp at a party. While their jobs and interests are diverse, their shallow attitudes are strikingly similar. Paul ad· vises Peter to buy a Jaguar and a fancy duplex not for enjoyment but for their investment potential and resale value. Hearing Paul describP 11 new Talk· ing Heads rock album as niucb like their old discs, Fran later adopts this assessment for her own in talking to Peter. Before putting out a serious pho tographic volume, Peter agrees without the slight· est protest to the publication of a $4'5 (soon to be S55) sllck opening book. Rejecting Socratic in· trospection out of hand. they lead scrupulously un· examined lives. Only Fran, who bluntly excle.ims to Peter ..I'lXI wasting my time!" , stands any chance of leading a meaningfu.l life, and that possibility is 1very much in doubt. Some theatergoers-movies like Wall Street and the New York Stock Exchange's Black Monday notwithstanding- may argue that these three are atypical of the upscale eighties. If so, they should take a hard look at the 1988 presidential election's preoccupation . with putting a spin on primary results, American bank investments in the third Allyn Bunowa and Julia Flood in And a NlglJ~e Sang. Page 26 CITIZEN ITEM April 15# 1988 MOVIES Bright Lights, Big Phooey Sorcuess, directed by Suzanne Schiffman, written life has turned him away from belief in anything ex· by Pamela Berger and Suzanne SchifflJlan. With cept looking out for number one. His attacks on her Tcheky Kuyo, Christine Boisson, Jean Carmet. and the family constitute a vicious striking out at a world that has broken all its promi~es to him. Beatrice, directed by Bertrand Tavernier, written Their battle is one of good versus evil taken to by Colo Tavernier O'Hagan.. With Bernard Pierre horrifying extremes, forcing Beatrice to decide if Donnadieu, Julie Delpy, Nils Tavernier. someone who wants to remain good and pure is ever justified in using force and thus sin.king to the lev· Bright Lights.Bi& City, direded by James Bridges, el of her enemies, for if she does nothing, she will written by Jay Mcinerney. With Michael J. Fo.x, be destroyed. Kiefer Sutherland, Phoebe Cates, Swoosie Kurtz, Where Sorceress is uplifting, Beatrice puts you Frances Ste.rnhagen. Jason Robards, Dianne Wiest. through the wringer and leaves you wondering i! it was worth it. It's a challenging film, but it1s not go ing to be for every taste. uch are the vagaries of film distribution Nose Candy that two thematically related but other· wise unOOD.IJected films open within a It seems that every generation has to produce its week of each other in Boston. Sorceress, movie about characters whose lack of discipline with the mol'& accessible and enjoyable of the dangerous substances leads them to self-destruct. two,S was one of the biggest hits at last fall's Boston In the past the poison was usually alcohol, in mo Film Festival and deserves to be just as big a sue· vies like The Lost Weekend, or Days 'llolllld Tavernier Bertrand Tavernier'lf Beatrice is also set in medieval France and deals with issues offaitb, but there the similarities end Tavern.ier's most recent films, SUllday in ihe Cou1itry and 'RoundMid:nigkt, have won him many fans. Beatrice is unlikely to reach as wide an attdience because it is a much more troublesome and troubling film. In a prologue we watch young Francois see his father off to war, and then return to find his mother in bed with another man. The resulting incident scars him for life, allowing him to find solace only in battle. Years later, it is his daughter Beatrice (Julie Delpy) who awaits the return of he-.r father, the ma· turn Francois (Bernard Pierre Donnadieu). Francois and her brother Arnaud (Nils Tavernier) return borne defeated, and Francois takes his wrath out on bis family, including Beatrice, whom he rapes, and ! Arnaud, whom be humiliates. Through this Beatrice's faith in a just Deity and the sanctity of familial love are torn asunder. It is lI Tohe.ky Karyo and Chrlstme Bolsson ln Sorce.reas. her goodness that hurts Francois the most, for his l April 15, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM Page 27 MUSIC Rockin' Record Review i.me once again for our occasional ser Big Guitars Fi:om Texas: Big Guitars From who've never made a conventional record. Their first ies of Records You've Probably Never Texas: Speaking of guitars, here's another glorious duo project was a three-record rock opera; and last Heard of, But Should Have. This is mess of them, though played to different effect. This year they made a "greatest-hits" record byrunnj.ng dedicated to anyone who's cringed be CD·only release (put out by the local Rykodisc label) some old songs through a computer and twisting fore some of the more pathetic offer is keg-party music par excellence, bringing a very them out of shape. Along the way they became En ingsT on the radio nowadays ("Good God, not rowdy Ventures to mind. Souped-up surf music, gland's leading rock-video directors. which means Michael Bolton again. .. and anything but Kingdom themes for imaginary spaghetti Westerns. and they now have enough bucks to finance offbeat Come. unless it's Lynyrd Skynyrd pretending hoedowns on speed; all served up with hot guitar J>rojects like this one. A concept LP about the Old they're still alive•. . ") and needs a healthy alterna licks and some of the cheesiest sound effects im West's decline. Goodbye Blue Sky (titled lifted from tive. Keep in mind that we're still not. too interest aginable. The CD compiled the best tracks from the old Pink Floyd song?) finds G&C working with con ed in fiendishly difficult. music of the WZBC mold: two Big GuitarS albums; among the perpetrators ventional instruments for the first time in a while: We're mining for great pop. and we'rewilling to sit are ace guitarists Don Leady (from the Tailgators) Godley even rediscovers the dnun kit be hasn't through any number of obscure records in order to and Evan Johns (from the H·Bombs). One of the played since lOcc's breakup. Just one catch: The find it. Here's the stuff that made the search original LP titles tells the story: "That's Cool, lead instrument on most every song is a st.ack of worthwhile: That's Trash" . harmonic.as. and the layered voices sound unearth The Del-Lords: Based on a True Story: Country ly as ever. As usual, it takes a few listens for G&C' s flavored roots-rock still big deal this year, song structures to make sense, but it all comes BRETT MILANO is a f though I can't understand why some bands make together. The Bears: Rise & Shine: This is the band that. art it. and some don't . Some get overrated like the Bo .Jane Siberry: The Walking~ This Canadian rock guitarist Adrian Belew formed three years ago, Deans (go ahead, tcy to .tell me they don't sound like singer/songwriter keeps getting compared to Joni thus angering some of his old fans who thought he the Eagles). And some get wildly underrated, like Mitchell, but l '11 take this LP over anything Joni's was playing it safe: Why would one of rock's the Del-Lord1;1. Nothing remotely new about their done this decade (including the new albwn, which greatest noisemakers decide to st.art playing sound. except for the conviction it's played with; is overrated). Remember when Mitchell started get Bealles-inspired, thr~minute pop songs? Because and the streetwise smarts that leader Scott Kemp ting really daring, around Lhe ti.me of Don Juan 's somebody's got lo do it. right, that's why. When the ner brings to everything he writes. Their third LP Reckless Daughter/ If she'd gone where that was Bears aren•t being too cute (which is their occasional is a go-for-broke effort, with some full-tilt rock'n'roll leading, this is where she'd end up. Siberry's song pitfall), they're building a bridge between commer (which works gloriously) and some semi-acoustic ep structures are even less linear than they nsed to be. cial rock and avant-rock; their strategy is to take ics (which don't, but nice try) The single, "Judas and her lyrics shi~ from concrete reality to some- a solid tune and mess with it. Their second LP is Kiss," is a rarity: A jangly ballad with plenty of 1.hing else altogether. Even the straightforward love more diverse and more confident than last year's teeth. songs have imaginitive touches; catch the drunken debut, wtiich means it's caLchier and weird.et at the The Damned: The Light at the End of the Tun slide guitar at the end of "Red High Heels." By the same time. nel; and the Stranglers: All Live and AU of the way, if anyone's figured out what Silberry's 1985 Band of Su.sans: Hope Against Hope: This is our Night: These are two of the only-bands who are left hit " Mimi On the Beach" is really about, write me pick of the month, another prime exampJe of rock around from the 1977 punk explosion, English di· care of this paper. that provokes and challenges without throwing pop vision. The Stranglers are the only band from that The Chmch. Starfish; and Clannad, Sirius: One values out the window. Band of Susans is mainly era who've survived absolutely intact; while the gem and one turkey. What they have in common is the ·work of Robert Poss, a New York Damned have weathered numerous personnel and that both bands are produced by California studio • singer/writer/guitarist. who seems to prefer band style changes. The Da.mned's album. a two-record hotshots, and neither band seems a logical choice mates named Susan: There's three of 'em in this compilation. ls an entertaining romp through their for the L.A. gloss treatment. It works on the lineup. More importantly, there's three lead history-from· the early punk singles ("Neat Neat Church's album, because the gloss isn't too glossy. guitarists, and they've evidently been listening to Neat," a classic of sorts), through eccentric music Instead it's the Australian quartet's most consis· some of the best art-noise: Early Stooges, early Vel· hall numbers, through tongue-in-cheek horror-movie tent album; Producers Greg Ladanyi and Waddy vet Underground. recent Glenn Branca. What numbers and most recently, back to punk again. The Wachtel pay more attention to vocals, highlighting they're doing is essentially what the more-acclaimed Stranglers' live set shows the band coming full cir the tunes without losing t.he band's murkiness or band Sonic Youth has lately been doing, but tak cle. back to the snarking sound of their earliest moodiness. But Clannad, who used to be a superb ing it one step further. They're uniting those mad records (some of the recent ones were melodic and Irish folk group, completely drop the ball on Sirius, guitar drones with genuine rock'n'roll songs. It's quite pretty. hut that side isn't represented here). which doesn't so much bury their folk roots as run plenty grungy and distortion rules; there's palpa Nasty and fun, even if the song selection leaves them over with a truck. On their last record they ble anger and there's the hope of the LP t.iUe. Best something to be desired Good version of the Kinks' harmonized with U2's Bono, which wasn't a bad opening line of the month: "I dream a lot/To make "All Day & All of the Night" into the bargain. idea; this time they harmonized with. .. Steve Perry up for lost time." This still·obscure band will prob Godley & Creme: Goodbye Blue Sky: The ex-lOcc of Journey? Singing in Gaelic? By all means, dis ably be at the Rat this spring; the album is due to duo's latest creation is so normal it's not normal at cover Clannad; just find any of their albums except be released on New York's Blast First label. all-which is fairly typical for Godley & Creme, this one.• Band of Susans Page 28 CITIZEN ITEM April 151 1988 Single and Satisfied • By Jlldith Wolff or dining out alone, single women seem to be ing: "I must be honest. I like men fine. I want come more, not less, contented with their 'sin to get married. But I've never looked..~! guess gleness' as they grow older. They also seem to I'm not that anxious yet." y brother is getting married grow increasingly comfortable with going out When asked about the best and worst part next month. He and his bride by themselves shopping or to the movies, out of being single, many women cite the rewards I to-be knew almost as soon as to dinner or away on vacation. Thus the stereo of independence, as well as occasional bouts they met they wanted to be type of the phobic, aging spinster, wrinkling with loneliness. together for the rest of their jaw set with disapproval and bitterness, may "The independence is great," says SU.san L. livesM. After dating for several months, they be the exception rather then the rule. Or " I love being by myself and I think that has to in decided move together and hunted with perhaps as women learn to identify themselves a lot to do with being comfortable with being great determination for an apartment in a safe less strongly by the men they love and more single. ... The worst part? I miss the companion· neighborhood where they could keep a dog. strongly by their own aspirations and achieve ship. I miss having someone to talk over the They began collecting housewares: here, a ments, being single has ceased to be the punish events of the day with. Ninety percent of the coffee maker; there. a fut.on couch suitable for ment it once was. While single women in their time I'm not lonely. There is that ten percent, weekend guests. He introduced her to camp- twenties and early thirties do report anxiety though.' ' ing and fishing; she taught him to control his about not being married yet,(" It's so much eas temper. These details of domesticity, though ier to go through life with someone else." Valerie K., a 69-year-old retired assistant common, I know, continue to surprise and 32-year-old Sandy says. ''I'd rather be mar move me; almost everybody does I know, buyer says, " The best part is you can do what it, ried."), there seems to a point and age at which but this is my brother, the kid with jungle wall you want when you want to and you can look some women stop feeling badly about not have like hell when you want to. And you don't have paper on his bedroom walls. married, stop struggling with ambivalence What makes more of an impression on me to be friendly if you don't feel like it. The worst about the subject, and make peace with them· part is that I'm not well and I 'm sometimes than the fact that we're all getting older, selves. though, is how their lives seem to have shar frightened of being alone.'' For some women, making peace means ac And how do single women feel about the men pened in focus since they fell in Jove; how sup knowledging that being single doesn't "hap portive they are of one another. I can't help but they're meeting in Boston these days? "What pen" to anyone; decisions, conscious and/or 11 compare their relationship to those I've had men? says Jennifer A. " Are there any single unconscious, are made; to not pursue relation men left in this city?" with boyfriends in the past: though I'm certain ships, to not "hunt out" a man, to not set mar ly of a marrying age I can't say I've come even Twenty-seven year old Josephine B., an ar· riage as a top priority. Says Edith, "For a long tist, says she's meeting mostly neurotic men close to considering marriage. I envy my time I didn't think I had any control over my brother and soon to be sister-in-law's confi these days. "They're extremely goal-orjented," not having married. It was this terrible thing Josephine says. "They're self·involved and con dence in each other. And I wonder what it feels out of my control But I've come to realize that to be so sure of someone else. cerned with what image they're portraying.'' nothing just 'happens.' I was a teenager in the "Young and stupid," says Anita M., a I 'Ube attending the wedding solo and there fifties and I bad a lot of leftover resentment will probably be a few awkward moments; wed 28-year-old secretary. about the sexism of that generation. And my "I haven't met any men yet, I've only been dings are for lovers, as are movie theatres, parents didn't have the best marriage, either. restaurants, museums-even trains, I'm dis here two months, but they seem nice," says So I held back, and though it would be very Sandy. covering, as I gain the courage to travel n& nice to be married, I'm pretty contented with ashamedly solo. Everywhere, people are " They're typically great, successful, and my life.'' Says Jennifer A. about the question available." says Edith. "There are lots of nice travelling in pairs, or so it seems. We are in of whether or not she has control over marry- stinctual creatures. programmed to find mat.es men out there."• (or two or three); all of my friends except two, for example, are either married or involved in long-term relationships, several have had their first babies, and all appear to be blissfully, ir· ritatingly happy. It's not that I begrudge them their bliss, but do I have to listen to it? AB it turns out. yes. Relationships with old friends change, as they must, when people set tle down for the long haul; married friends are no longer as available to their single friends as they once were, and when they can get together with old friends, discussions frequently center around the subject of children. Susan L., a 38-year-oJd journalist who would like to get • t married but is •rquite comfortable with being single," says of her old married friends: " I don't see them as often as I used to.. .when 1 do see them I feel obliged to beinterest.ed in their chil dren; because kids are such a focus ol their lives." Sandy M., a 32-year-old interior design er, agrees: " I have less in common with my married friends, as their lives are centered on having children." Being single and socializing with married friends can also be occasionally awkward, some women have indicated. "I recently attended a weekend long party in the country with some old friends from college,'' says Jennifer A., a 31-year-old attorney. " There were six married .,I ,Ul.._... couples- and me. It was all very friendly but there's something strange about being around married people for any length of time. You be ~-- come very aware of your aloneness- even if ---- twenty-four hours earlier you'd been thrilled about being so free. And you start to feel like an invalid who's recovering from a dreaded long illness.'' rr Women whose long-term friendships with ~ men are disrupted when their male friends mar ~ ~ ry, report that making the friendships continue - ! to l::::. endure after the wedding depends in large part on gaining their friends' wives· trust. "My -= strategy is to become friendly with both of - them, says Edith, a single, 43-year-old consul tant. "Wives do get understandably threa· tened. With one couple I knew, I found out that she sold Avon products, so I bought some from her. This is how trust is established. You have to show good will. and you gave to give each partner equal time." Whether working out at the gym with biends April 15, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM Page 29 LISTINGS 442-861'4. Houts; Tues• .sun 1-5. Througi May 15' The Por lraya/ ol tM Bladt MVSJClan In AmericonM. 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'\ - Page 32 CITIZEN ITEM April 15, 1988 - Anthony announces guidelines for homeownership opportunity program State Secretary of Communities citing an "overwhelming response in in a program whose goal is to increase gram has been very positive. To date, and Development Amy S. Anthony which demand for HOP resources has the supply of affordable housing," 60 HOP developments in 35 conunu· recently announced new guidelines for far exceeded supply. Anthony said. "These resources, com· nities have received preliminary or fi. the stat.e's Homeownership Opportu· "In the eighteen months since the bined with revised guidelines, will en· nal approval from the state. Over nity Program so that it will better Homeownership Opportunity Pro sure that the program is better able 6,900 units have been proposed, over serve the housing needs of low and gram began, we have received an over· to provide moderate income families 2,600 have been approved and more moderate income families. Anthony whelming response from local with the. opportunity to buy their first than half of those will be sold to also announced the first competitive communities, housing developers and homes." moderate-income homebuyers. funding round for the HOP program. those whQ. are anxious to participate Changes in the homeownership pro In addition to the new round of gram will result in lower home prices, HOP funding, Anthony noted that a greater number of affordable hous Governor Dukalcis has requested an ing units in every HOP development additional $15 million for the program Title insurance a inust and a greater emphasis on those for the Fiscal Year 1989 state budget. households earning between $20,000 The HOP program is based on a lo and $83,000 per year. Some of the key cal partnership between a communi· for hoine shoppers . elements of the new guidelines are: ty and a developer, which results in At least 30 percent of the units in reduced development costs on hou& By 'Michael Merrill of encumbrances. As a borrower, you every HOP development must be af· ing projects and reduced prices on a probably agreed to pay for title ins~ fordable to low and moderate income portion of the units in each deveiop Q. What is title insurance? I am ance when you applied for the loan or households. ment. The state pl'Ovides low--0ost buying a house and the bank's attor when you accepted the commitment. Of the affordable units, at least five mortgage financing and an interest ney has just told me I must buy it for The premium for a lender's policy is percent need to be set aside for ren· subsidy to further reduce costs for the bank. Do I have to pay for the in $1 .25 for each thou.sand dollars of the tal to low income families or people income-qualified first-time homebuy surance? Doesn't the bank's attorney loan amount. This premium is due with special needs. ers. The re-sale of the affordable bous· review the title and certify the title to only once. at closing. You will also State-assisted units in every HOP ing units is restricted so that the the bank? have the option at the time of closing development most have an average affordability of the houses is main to purchase an owner's policy which sale price of $76,000 with a maximum tained over time. A. Title insurance is required by all protects your interest in the property sale price of $95.000. The first competitive funding round mortgage lenders to insure that the for a small additional cost. Size and density guidelines for HOP for the Homownershlp Opportunity mortgage is always assumed by the developments have been included for Program is open to developeJ"s and borrower. Lenders are unwilling to Merrill is a real estate attorney. Ques the first time in program guidelines. communities. Applications are due rely solely on their attorney's certifi· tions should be mailed in his name to Anthony noted that response to the March 18. Funding decisions will be cation that the title is free and clear Ji Beacon St., Boston. Homeownership Opportunity Pro- made in May. REAL ESTATE SPEND AWEEKEND IN FLORIDA FOR FIVE BUCKS WITHOUT EVER LEAVING BOSTON Exciting new luxury condominiums from $114,900. In the great tradition of giving Bostonians what they demand - wherher it be Low truces on tea or a great new affordable THE FLORIDA REAL ESTATE SHOWCASE"' brings place to live- We'd like to thousands of square miles of Florida property to present the incomparable Boston! 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One advantage of the new individual homes requires accuracy and if the method were different," process. he said, is that it allows him and split-second timing. Thus, it Kellogg said. "The man driving the to make a more accurate assess· leaves little opportunity to explain van was not helpful and seemed like ment. Thus, it provides him with a to residents what they are doing in he wanted to get away." Bob Mac bett.er image of the neighborhood. the neighborhood. Donald. director of V aluatfon of highlighting variables that cannot "We are mindful of (neighbors'] Boston's assessing department said be seen in a still photograph. such as landscaping. concern and have done things to try that local police are informed in ad to allay their fears," she said. "We vance that the vans will be filming Imaging promises to be a big~ try to be courteous but we don't stop their neighborhood. Captain Edward saver, allowing the assesor to ''drive to discuss what what we're doing. If O'Neil of Station 14 in Brighton said around tbe block'' without ever leav people have questions, there is a tel that he received only one telephone ing the office, said McDonald. In ad· ephone number on the side of the call inquiring about the origin of the dition, information supplied by the van." vans. video image-combined with Jeffers added that the amount of McDonald added that he does not property information-will allow the time that they spend videotaping regard videotaping as intrusive, as assessor to examine an area one each home lasts between four and the cameras are not permitted to block at a time rather than individu six seconds. film inside the homes or pan into the ally assessing the city's 132,000 par "The house comprises 75 percent windows. cels of land. of the picture. Everyone has bis own "The only problem will be is if we "The process is also updatable. If job. No one has time to see what is can't convince the taxpayer. U there the house bums down, you can in· going on," Jeffers explained. are complaints, we will change our sert a new photo over the video policy.Wecowddoamassmailing tape," commented McDonald. Felt like "Big Brother" was fmf orming people that their homes While McDonald hopes the video watching will be videotaped). People justwant process to be better, that doesn't to know why." mean the the old way bas gone com That's not the way some residents pletely out of style. saw it. 0 " Imaging is not the sole means of determining assessment. "comment "It felt like "Big Brother was The videotaping process, called watching me,'' commented one irate imaging, involves filming an entire ed Sally Powers. the department's resident who witnessed her home be street during which every home is director of valuation standards. "Field reveiwers are still going out ing filmed. She was upset that she identified and 'tagged' on an in into their cars and checking building had not been notified in advance dividual videotape frame. It is later that her home was being filmed. compiled and stored on a video laser permits. Data collection goes on constantly." "There was no sign on the v8Il say· disk. Statistical information is then Powers added that property 118- ing that they were assessing," she gathered and stored on a computer sessments for Fiscal Year 87-88 in added. disk, to be used simultaneously wi~ W• represent zta.ooo people Allston and Brighton increased bew Kellogg claims that the van not the videotape. The assessor uses who want to buy som9thlng. tee:n 40 and &O percent, which is only "lingered" on her street, film· both data banks to revalue the about the average rate of increase ing a neighbor's house for " a minu property. compared with the rest of the city. mum of two minutes," it also According to McDonald, the imag· Filmingis basically finished in All returned to her street Friday ing process is an improvement over ston and Brighton, McDonald said. morning. the previous assessment methods The video company will continue '' l think I would find it acceptable which relied on still photographs of 61ming in other parts of the city un· {to videotape for assessment pur· the homes in addition to the statis- til July. Town Garden. Freshest in town -Bought Daily 409 Washington St. Brighton Center • Located next to the Palace spa • Open 7 days a week 787-4633