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Published Weekly In Allst.on-Brighton Since 1884 Friday, May 6, 1988 Vol. 103, No. 19 35 Cents Hate that dirty water
By Jane Braverman Citizen Item Starr
The water coming from the Laps of En tern Mll5· sachusett.s homes moy smell fishy. but it's usually clear -unless you live on Niles Stn.>et. For the past two years. residC?nts of the dend end street in Brighton hnve had to contend with dis colored water which varie in color from yellow to dark brown. "At first it's black in the morning, then whim you run the water for a whilt? it gets rusty," comment· ed Eileen Geaney, who has been living at 5 Niles St. fort.he past 28 year:;. "You can't drink the water. It. tastes like dead fish," she said, referring to the unpleasant odor that was detected Inst August in the water of the 46 Massachusetts communities us· ing the Quabbin and ·wachusett Reservoirs in ccn· trnl Massachusett.s. According to a report issued by the MWHA and the MDC this February, the algae developed ns a result of runoff from plants growing near a build· -- ing development adjacent to the Wachusett Rc$er· voir. Attempts hnvc been made to eliminate the odor from t.he water sy<:tern b} adding copJ>l?r !:Ul·~,, fate to the reservoir. "The problem has been troublesomP. It hns not respondt' Water Resource Authority. which has formed a task force with the Metropoli· tan District Commission to studv and find solutions Many l'etlidents believe billboards in Alleton and B righton are blighting the neighborhood. to the algae problem. • STAFF PHOTO 8Y JUUA 8HAPlBO ''If the treatment works. the best measurement we have is through the number of complaints we Signs of the times continued on page 20 City, neighbors Inonitor billboards
By Kevin Devine chester and Roslindale, where a number of Citizen Item Staff residents have been active over the past year in monitoring local billboards. Last week, city offi. The Commonwealth's revived Outdoor Adver cials and several residents presented the results tising Board is treading the tightrope between of further investigations into non-conforming hill· protecting business interests on t.he one side and boards in other parts of the city. The OAB plans community interests on the other. to issue rulings on the signs at its May meeting. By subjecting outdoor advertisers to annual permit reviews with appeal opportunities and by Residents monitor billboards tightening existing billboard regulations, the state hopes to balance the interests of billboard Brian Gibbons, president of the Allston· companies with those of communities intent on Brighton Community Beautification Council and enhancing open space and maintaining the a member oft.he A·B P lanning and Zoning Advi· character of their neighborhoods. sory Committee, identified 66 non-conforming While existing billboards may be grandfathered billboards among the 128 in the neighborhood. under the new regulations, Boston and commu Gibbons commented that be hopes the new regu nity groups from Brighton to Beacon Hill to lations "will be watering down some of the op Charlestown have identified over 100 billboards tions that Ackerley and some of the other outdoor which do not conform to the existing code. Out· advertisers have," such as the lengthy appeal door Advertising Board critics question the process. board's ability to remove or relocate non· He added that this year. the city and the com· conforming ~igns due to the extensive review and munity are working to identify and hopefully appeal process, yet they are hopeful that through move the flagrant non-conforming billboards. Chris Clamp. left . and her daughter CaiWn and the yearly review process, non-conforming signs Next year and in subsequent years, they plan husband Don Gia.nniny are j ust one N iles Street can be controlled. to identify ones that are out of character with the . family beset with dirty water. They are reluc At an OAB hearing in March, the city present· neighborhood. The PZAC, which is a citizens' ad· tant to even take ehowera; they never drink the ed a list of 40 non-conforming billboards in Dor· continued on page J:J tap water. PHat'O BY MICHAEL KATZ
I SMABT SAVEB8 GET CLASSIFIED WITH THE GROUP! ONE CALL 232-7000-224,000 READERS I Page 2 CITIZEN ITEM May 6, 1988 J & M AUTO CLINIC 254-7413 NO LEAD 88¢ • PREMIUM 98¢ Getting their day in court PREMIUM DIESEL 92¢ Certified Mechanics Foreign & Domestic Repairs By Jane Braverman Free Towing Citizen Item Staff FREE Tank of gas with For many of the seventh and Insurance replacement Windshield eighth grade students, it was their 2022 Comm. Ave. Jon the Green Lin~ first time in court. They sat quiet· ly on the dark wooden benches in the courthouse while Judge Albert EARLYBIRD SPECIAL! Burns heard cases. But these stu· 9 AM - 11 AM dents were not awaiting trial or even charged with any offenses. MASSAGE BY WOMEN They were the essay and poster con· test winners of Law Day held at the SAVE $5. oo WITH THIS AD Brighton District. Courthouse last - Tel. . : ~6': Friday. 354-1800 - Sponsored by the American Bar OPEN 7 DAYS Association, Law Day is part of a 9 AM to 10 PM national educational awareness pro Need a job? gTam designed to familiarize Be A Masseuse citizens with the principles and practices of the american legal sys· tem. This year's theme, "Legal @1\.QYAL Literacy: The ABC's of American Law and Justice," is intended to make citizens more aware of the .Sauna.. laws that affect them, and is espe Law Day es say and artwor k contest winners pose on the steps of the 199 Alewife Brook Parkway, Cambridge cially resonant in an election year, Brighton Dietrict courthouae says Robert ~acCrate. president of PROTO BY C.W. the American Bar Association. "The purpose of Law Day is to show young people the positive side Day essay and artwork contest Robert La Page. Dorian Aradeda, CJhe QooJ Ohing 7lhout of the court and allow them to meet made him think about pursuing a Linda Soave, Miguile Thomas. people associated with the court," career in law? Audra Sullivan, Julie Nelson, Min· 'Dragon Chef said Judge Albert Burns, who host· "I have no idea," be replied, dy McSweeney. Veronica Ling, ed the program. He added that be somewhat abashed. Marcia Cicolini and Peter Mulkeen. was pleased with the students' sub By contrast, essay contest win· "I was surprised that I won," 1. The Best Chinese Food. missions. ner and seventh grade Presentation commented Audra Sullivan. whose 2. Open Kitchen (you can "The kids responded well with ex· student Beth Mullin, whose essay poster depicted the American flag focused on the history of voting, and the constitution. She and her watch our chef prepare ellent. posters and super essays," said Burns. said her participation in the contest friend Linda Soave agreed that the your favorite dish). Outside of the courtroom, top es· has reaffirmed her desire to become cases that they witnessed were 3. Cleanliness say winner Thomas Mulkeen, an a judge. different from the courtroom drama Regina Cacciola, a seventh grader they had seen on television. 4. Special Packing Keeps eighth grader at Our Lady of Lhe Presentation School in Brighton, at St.. Columbkille's School in Mary Battles. principal of St. Our Food Hotter. practiced reading his essay on the Brighton chose to examine the Collumbkille's School. was pleased 5. 10 Years Experience (at importance of voting. Mulkeen, the topic of legal literacy a litUe closer with her students' enthusiasm and to home, focusing on state laws per· performance on what she called "a five different locations). top essay and artwork cont.est. win· ner, who also placed first in last taining to driving regulations, fire hard topic." She added that all of year's Law Day essay cont.est. sum· laws. vandalism and voting. the students' work was done out· DRAGON "I wrote about Massachusetts side of regular school hours. laws because it"s where I live. I James Gulliver of the probation CHEF wanted to write what 1 knew department, and one of the main or· about," said Cacciola. ganizers of the event was pleased 411 Representatives William Galvin with the quality of students' sub· Washington St. and Kevin Honan were present at missions as well as lhe community Friday's program, and mentioned support he received from the police, Brighton the value of introducing students to local businesses and the Brighton the judcial process in a positive Congregational Church. 782-6500 Light. Sister Mary Duke, principal of "[Law Day] is an excellent and Our Lady of the Presentation valuable educational tool for School, spoke of the importance of citizens to see law in action and to Law Day, and added lhnt the event Phann.cy "- by know that the court is here to pro is more than j ust a way to com tect you," said Galvin. mend students for their writing and Footnot"' • .,.,Charles P. Kelly For Presentation student and es· their artwork. 7 .... B.S., R. PH. say contest winner James St. Croix, "It gives students a greater Law Day marked his first ex awareness of what the court syst.em A MA'ITER OF TASTE perience inside a courtroom does once they started to inves· " It.'s more serious. and more tigate and research the topic," The unpleasant tastes of bitter J udge Albert B urns. realistic." said the seventh grader. Duke said. tablets can be minimiz.ed by placing Other essay contest winners Carrie Haugh, a seventh grader the tablet on a specific area of the ton· were: Bernard Becker. Linda Soave, at Our Lady of the Presentation gue. The tongue has taste buds for marized the text of his speech. Elizabeth Mullen, Kathleen Boyle, School, said writing her essay sup sweet and salty tastes on lhe front tip, .. It's about how we take our vot· Michelle Clancy, Daniel Duggan, plemented gave her greater insight for sour tastes along the edges, and for ing rights for granted and the laws Dana Arlock, Audrey Doyle, Carrie into her regular coursework. bitter tases at the back. To help mask that gave us the right to vote," he Haugh and Richard Brothers. Art· "ll helped me understand what a bitter taste, place the tablet toward said. work contest winners were: David we are doing in history class." she the front of the tongue since there are Have his successes in the Law Ryan, Kobena Gypei Garbrah, said. no bitter taste buds there. Tablets that taste too sweet could similiarly be placed near the back of the tongue I FOUND where there are no sweet taste buds. In this way, unpleasant tastes are not MY JOB given as great an opportunity to No Minimum Balance Checking THROUGH stimulate the taste buds that detect that particular taste. ___ and XPRESS24 C.G.P. 10% SENIOR CITIZEN Seean PRESCRIPTION DISCOUNT The interesting Unbeatable Combi1Ultion looking job KELLY'S PHARMACY 389 Washington St., Brighton being Call 782-2912 - 782-0781 advertised in th.is section? 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By Clyde Whalen others. That should be where the Harvard. They skipped to the curb Williams mob, who can fire off their Citizen ltfl!l Correspondent "people'' take over. and one ran over to lhe entrance of a unverified opinions without fear of In Germany, for example, where building, and, standing on the side reprisal Perennial political candidate Ara· pedestrians consult traffic signals be walk (malting the necessary adjust In my opinion, Williams is enter· mis Camps has quit smoking just in fore crossing, if you cross against the ments), proceeded to relieve himself taining but not to be taken seriously. time to accommodate the new anti· lights the "people" standing there will on the public way. I consider him a t.alented rabble rous smoking law in effect in the Common· admonish you. Ar 'ler time a couple of kids tag er, period. But bow are the illiterate wealth. In our beloved Allston/Brighton, ging a.tong with their mother threw to know? where people ignore the lights and their soda containers on the public To sum it all up, I believe that our "I did it for reasons of health." said consult the traffic pattern, if someone way, kicked them around, jumped up problems could be alleviated by insist Aramis, who smoked "pipe, cigars dared admonish another it might be and down on them and left them ing that all people be "housebroken" and cigarettes. After many years I cause for an altercation. there-without a word from the by training. felt it was affecting my well being." For example, a Brighton Avenue woman-as they climbed aboard the People are more animal than we are Not. all tobacco junkies are as lucky merchant called attention to a parked bus and left their ignorance with the led to believe. Dogs. horses, monkeys, as Aram.is Camps. You see them all motorist who dumped some trash community. and even birds can be trained. Lan· around puffing away at. a quick lunch· curbside and was met with "mind We've all heard the astounding guage is no problem. People can also time cigarette or a coffee break. your own business" to which the mer figures on illiteracy in the United be trained. The "designated area.s" filled with chant (a former professional wrestler) States. Illiteracy is the inability to Is it too much to ask to put trash butt fiends emit.ting clouds of fumes was fleetingly tempted to grab the big read and write. They still can talk and in a container? are not too popular. mouth by the legs and make a wish. listen. Too difficult to search for an alley It's more fun to enjoy a few deep If they have a radio, they may even when one is forced to urinate? drags in the otherwise pure air of the I 've read a lot about education in listen to W RKO and Jerry Williams, That impossible to watch the lights "nonsmoking area" if you can get the Boston area and how the more and, in their ignorance, think that before crossing at busy intersections. away with it, and so far there's a de money we spend, the less we accom Williams speaks for all of us. People are smarter than animals, lay in enforcement to give people time plish on the bottom line. There's little doubt that for a listen maybe not as intelligent., but certain to adjust to the change. The old days of "learning at your ing audience sick of facts, bored with ly smarter. There's some hope that people with mother's knees" are long gone. statistics and "up to here" with real· the power of peer pressure will police Mother now works and the kid is ity, Williams is the way to go. It's just a matt.er of patience and themselves. shunted from "day care" to "latch His "speculation" programming perseverance. Today we separate Meanwhile. the law will not move key," and the school system is either gives you people a chance to "second smokers and non-smokers. Tomorrow against violators until the grace peri unwilling or afraid to fill the parental guess" the establishment, to "bad· our public places may have sections od ends. void. mouth" the law and to air their trou for criminals and non-criminals. Don't The idea of ''peer pressure" is an in· The results of this lack of training bles with blessed "anonymity." laugh. As you enter Atlantic City tresting one. Obviously the cops can't are obvious. Just yesterday I saw a The disgruntled who use the papers there's a large sign which reads, "All be everywhere and some things are bus that stopped and discharged two to publish their "letters to the editor" criminals must register at the police higher on their priority list than little boys on Bright.on A venue below have to identify themselves. No so the station." Remembering George Franklin By Clyd~ Whalen PUIUStEfl - PflESmENT Citizen Item Correspondent VOL 103 F-N l'tlrlnlJ No. 19 aoew. llAHAGER Jldll'I F Phmey No matter how big and strong and de NEWS EDITOR termined you are; no matter how ~M 9-Jr many times you overcome obstacles; COKTMIUTING EDlTOA if you live long enough the ti.me comes lM'Y Hermon llEPOA'T£RS when fate puts you up against age, ~ A Beet • Jc"1n lllcMI' • Mlr'gll'lll 8urT-. and you're overmatcbed. K.11"1 o..n. • - en...wm.n • MM'/ Gl1lmW So it happened to George Franklin, THIS ME< age 70, sitting in his big easy chair. Edler. M-. s ~ PHO~ in the piano store he'd founded after -~ years of trucking and furniture and pi ACCOUNT EXECUTMS ano moving, of marriage and the rais John Achtar • Ptit Hor7og • Tin .... ing of a family of two boys. Jon 8oralhol< • ~ 'Boo" Lunt s..... Mee.or..- . ~ c..n. Like many others of that. era, Ge ADvama«l OOOADINATOR orge Franklin started work early in George Franklin during his 1983 run for the Boston City Council. life. during the depression, hustling CUSSIFIED AOYERT1Sl«l citizens who had made good by hard to kid him about it.. He never took IVIOde w.-. any kind of honest labor Lo make a CA.AEEJlt OPPORT\HTIES living. work and stick-to-it-iveness. His offense. E. Sl1IWI SNlplro • Lena Ganm In World War II George joined and favorite writer was Horatio Alger. Also, when we talked, we agreed PROOUC'TIOH IWWIEAS served in the Middle East. Only re that those who God loves he takes Qr! T.-• SlwtTw> ~ He was a brusque man, opinionat quickly. NmSTS cently he'd met with his old service Nllncy AdaN • CIYlllir1 ...... 0.-V mates in their annual get t.ogether. ed and one-track minded. Also be was God must have loved George very JoM ,.._ During his youth he'd been a profes honest and very loyal. He rubbed me much. He died of a heart attack while TYPOGRAPHERS sional wrestler, a bull of a man, who the wrong way a few times but I got sitting in his chair waiting on the Kim T""* • ~ 'I-• Tom 9- kept in shape pumping iron. In more over it. day's business. He'd have liked that; CIACU.A llOH J.W.11 AallNln recent years he bad been a regular When be wore a cap. George Frank dying with his boots on. llOOIO ~ ...eldy by Cllbrl G!OUll Publc8llonL 411 Hw .v sin., llrodi:lne, ... 021114. Secono cMIS ~ pmd • ec.in. 1otA POST'll&AS'nA: $elld U-.CNngl (Ed note: TM following /.etter was ad· were in support of the legislation, or involved with South Africa or IDClaetlGrOUll ~. PO l!ax 411, ~MA dressed to Citizen !um Reporter John that my final vote of the four was to Nam.ibis. I am against giving South QZ1411 (USPSOl'-180). ~ CllW ,_$12.00 1"'° Becker.) Africa our money. or giving it to any ~ s1100 Clul~...... , moo'*~ reconsider the previous vote on the amdendment~reflecting News aipv lfQJd bit MOTill9d bV Monm)' • s p "' lor Apropos of a paragraph in your a situation other country that bases its political ~ .._ - °"'*I' ldwerWID~. in which I had second thoughts about system on racism. 5 pm T.-dly a..lllld~ 101.m w~ Citizen· Item article of April 8 which The a..,...--,,...,_,.~ ... ~ we have discussed, I would like to let its implications. Reconsideration is in The votes under discussion were on Cll-1\ ..,.._,.... tas ..NPllll...... ctwglt. you know in writing that I support cluded in the rules for the very reason last year's bill, H 1894, and took place dW l*1 al ..~···-.. - Cllirlll lor that such situations occur. on Jan. 4, just before the end of the *-1oe ...... bit - I\ wrtirQ...., - ~ Cl'Kll legislation prohibiting doing business "" ...,,. - Orlly lot lnl ~ with the Republic of South Africa or With all due respect for your writ· session. There was no furl.her action. PUlll.SER ing. which I think is clear and fair, I This year's bill. H 3521, was heard a Ri.-11 "'*1ne)' 193""11182 Namibia, such as last year's H 1894 and this year's H 3521, both filed by do feel that in this instance you em yesterday by the Committee on State Rep. Saundra Graham of Cambridge. phasized the wrong thing. The fact is Ad.ministration. It will be redrafted Your April 8 paragraph states that that I am anti-apartheid and have al and will go to the House. I expect to I voted for an amendment that made ways supported anti-apartheid legis· have an opportunity to help it pass lation, will continue to do so, and T~ 117-232.7000 • A Member ol Ille llrooldN it easier for the state to buy from com this year in the Senate, and I appreci· ~ ol eam-• ~ lllillonlly bV U.S. panies doing business in South Afri want this particular measure to pass ate your attention to my effort to do SIJ8UWNI PAESS, INC. ca. It does not, however, state that as soon as possible. I want people to so. this vote was only one of four taken know I am opposed to having the Michael LoPresti Jr. on the bill, or that my other votes st.ate do business with any company State Senator May 6, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM Page 5 Picking a InuseUlll that's Custo111-nutde By John Becker satellite maritime exhibit in a Citi7en Item Staff City of Boston Museum at the Custom House, with the main % By I.his time next week. the maritime museum located at the fate of one of downtown Navy Yard. Boqton's most prominent land According to Lashley. 'There marks may well have been decid should be a maritime compo ed. Al its May 12 meeting, the nent •. as well as a sports com board of the Bo::;ton Redevelop ponent" at the proposed City of ment AuthoriLy will reportedly Bo ton Mu, eum. NEW CAR designate a developer for the Sports Museum advocates are first three floors of the Custom less receptive to the idea of col House. The decision will bring laboration. an end lo an extraordinary set 'Tm not sure that really FINANCING* of political maneuverings works," said former Celtic star among the three proposed de Dave Cowens, who is president Whatever your dream car ve lopers of the space of the Sports Museum. But, he maneu verings which have added, .. We'd like to discuss may be, now is the time to make it a reality. ushered in a new era of aggres anything with Stephen Coyle, Effective immediately you can get 100°10 sive developer self-advocacy. not with Tom O'Neill." "All Lhree teams have been Coyle acknowledged that fi nancing on a new car. NO MONEY DOWN. very aggressive in making their "some teams are talking Lo each case,·· noted BRA spokesman other" but he said that any Rate Term Ralph Memolo. "More de· proposals for collaboration will velopers should do that." be "easier if one team is 10°/o 24 months T he three developers designated." 10.5 °/o 36 months Custom House Tower Associ Coyle predicted that "by the ates (with James White Part· 12th (of May). we'll have sorted 11 O/o 48 months ners and Trammell Crowl; this out." Coyle and his team 60 months Hamlen Collier Co. with the must present a recommendation 12°10 .. ...,...... ___ __ New England Sports Museum; to the BRA board, which makes •Applies to 1988 models only and the Convey-Heafitz De the final decision. Excludes demonstrators ._.NCUA '--._...... velopment Co. with Maritime Coyle praised Cowens for the .. _ Explorers lnc.-all answered " broad based support" the the BRA 's call for a major pub Sports Museum has garnered. ~ BlueHill ~---- lic use at the Custom House That support includes endorse with museum proposals. The ments from the Boston School ~ Trammell Crow group proposes Committee, the Mass. Cultural Federal Credit Union a museum of the city of Boston: Alliance, Mass. AFL-CIO and a Maritime Explorers wants to myriad of New England profes BROOKLINE FRAMINGHAM STOUGHTON FRANKLIN use Lhe salvaged remains of an sional and amateur sports or 429 Harvard St Rt 1 Ma 601 Was"' or ,,. St Oepost Plaza Mam St (617) 520-0410 18th Century pirate ship (the ganizations. Brighton Historical (61 7) 731·3911 (617) 879·2236 (617) 828·7510 Whydahl as the centerpiece of a Society curator and former maritime museum: the New En School Committee member Wil· gland Sport.s Museum seeks a liam Marchione offered his sup downtown location to expand port for the Brighton-based from its cramped and inaccessi· institution's goal of a downtown ble headquarters on Soldier's spot. OPEN Field Hoad in Brighton. Political figures listed on a Each group has prepared Sports Mu.sewn handout as sup SUNDAY \"Oluminous studies of the pro porters of the Custom Hoose NOON posed museum and bas solicited proposal include: former Attor TO S PM editorial, political and power ney General Frank Belloti. State broker endorsements to Treasurer Bob Crane, State Au strengthen the proposal di tor Joe DeNucci, House The Whydah group has been Speaker George Keverian, U.S. the underdog from the st.art, Rep. Joseph Kennedy and Sen. when accusations that the muse Edward Kennedy. A postcard um would display and sell pirate campaign netted 25,000 endors ship " booty" circulated and a ers from the general public. communication mishap prevent (Every editorial staff in town ed Lhem from attending a mid appears to have taken a stand February City Council hearing. on the issue. The Globe. the (They did have a chance to Boston Business Journal. WBZ present their plans to the Coun and the Patriot Ledger's Ian cil's Arts and Humanities Com Menzies have come out for the mittee later in Lhe month and all City of Boston Museum, while three proposals were presented the Herald. lhe Phoenix and the at a BRA public hearing in Boston Ledger support the March.) Sports Museum.) Kng Koll TWIN SIZE BRA director Stephen Coyle Cowens has an "interesting MATTRESS OR this week reiterated his belief point" that the Sports Museum *' King ICDll that the Whydah proposal was is "a functioning museum." QUEEN MATTRESS & BOX SPRING the least appealing of the three. Coyle said. This point has SIZE Calling lhe city of Boston muse provided some ammunition for BOX SPRING um and the aports museum the debate between the Sports proposals the " two t.op teams: · Museum and the City of Bost.on f~~ikl Coyle said, "I'd like to see a Museum proponents. cm maritime museum at the Navy .. Museums aren "t created Yard." overnight," said Sports Muse Kng Koll FULL SIZE Apparent.ly in response to um curator Dick Johnson. The King ICDll reports that they were out of the Sports Museum has existed for f MATTRESS OR running. the Wbydah group, led 11 years and only found a place KING MATTRESS & BOX SPRING by former LL Gov. Thomas for permanent exhibits last SIZE O'Neill (who now runs Baystate year. BOX SPRING Investors), initiated negotia· "There was not an idea of a tions with the two other groups city of Boston museum before f~:~il'J E:I!W to collaborate. there was a Customs House A source for the Wbydah available,·· charged Johnson. OPEN MON., THURS .• FRI. TIL 9 •TUES .. WED .. SAT. TIL 5:30 • SUN. 12 TO S PM group said in late April that "They [the city of Boston they were in "intense negotia· Museum) don't have any collec· lions" with the other two. " It. is Lions yet," noted Sports Muse possible that we could work um spokeswoman Helene something out," the source said. Solomon. WATERTOWN DEDHAM But, the source added, "We've But, said Coyle. "Jim White never felt we are out of con also has an interesting point. 660 Arsenal Street 550 Providence Highway sideration." that . Boston is overdue for a Opposite the Watertown Arsenal Rt. 1-Between Lechmere Sales & J.C. Best CHTA spokeswoman Averil real city of Boston museum." Lashley said that discussions Lashley noted that the Muse 923-0010 329-0222 with the Whydah group had um of Science and the New En· been fruitful. One of the gland Whaling Museum have scenarios being discussed is a continued on page 15 Page 6 CITIZEN ITEM May 6, 1988 Allston-Brighton residents opt for IPOD fair over Bruins game Not a regular Monday night By John Becker Citizen Item Staff The residents of Allston and Bright on had a chance t.o peek into the fu· ture of the neighborhood Monday night at lhe first Planning Fair. spon· sored by the Planning and Z.Oning Ad visory Committee. Despite mercurial weather and a Bruins hockey game, a steady crowd of over 200 people browsed through the booths at the J nckson/M ann Com munity School auditorium. pausing to peruse maps. fill out questionnaires, view \'ideotapc:; and speak with the PZAC members. city officials and con cerned neighbors who have been working on rezoning the neighbor hood for two years. The idea for the fair came from Jane Greene. the Boston Redevelopment Authority planner who has assisted the PZAC since last summer. Instead of the atmosphere of a lecture or meet· ing, Greene suggested to the Above: The Planning Fair gave the Jackson/Mann's auditorium. the at mosphere of a political convention. Left: West Roxbury PZAC members Helen Crowley and Marion Ego joined Judy Bracken of the Mayor's Office on Monday night. PHOTOS BY JOHN SK.t.W terim guidelines expire in August. booths. featuring a representauve ol set a boundary. or Neighborhood 1989. at which time the PZAC expects the institution and one from the chic Preservation Parameter (as residents to have O\'erall recommendations for groups. featured information instead term it in BRA-esquc jargonl, to its BRA Director Stephen Coyle at the permanent rezoning measures. of confrontation. Members of the expansion. BC Director of Communi· fair. PHOTO BY JOW. SHAW LUCK Neighborhood Association set ty Affairs Jean McKeigue noted I.hat Information, not confrontation up a table in the foyer of the Jack BC had not bought a new piece of son/Mann to solicit signatures on a property in 15 years. 26-member group that a fair, wilh The institutional master pla~ petition calling for Boston College t.o McKeigue shared the BC table with more opportunities to provide infor· LUCK President Marion Alford. mation and gather input on a one-to Similar scenes presented themselves one level. might. attract more at.ten· at the tables for St. Elizabet.h's and dees and might better ser\'e the dual Harvard Unhersity, which have been purpose of education and soliciting developing their ma:.-ier plans with public comment.. Greene also came the help of community task forct!.S. upon the idea of sending nolices of the Conspicuously absent was the only fair home with Allston-Brighton's neighborhood inslitution wilh a city· school children. Reaching the families approved master plan-Boston of the community. who have invest· University-which did not send a ed so much in it, was one of the main representative to discuss plans for the goals of lhe fair, she said. Greene and Commonwealth Armory site. despite Mayor's Office of I\eighborhood Sen· a PZAC invitation. ices liaison Judy Bracken, who co Helen Crowley and Marion Ego. chaired t.hc PZAC hefore taking a job members of the West Roxbury PZAC. with the city, spent much of Monday which has just begun to meel. attend (along with a number of PZAC mem ed the fair to get an idea of what lies bers) set.ting up the Jackson/Mann to ahead for their group. . look as festive as it did that night. BRA director Stephen Coyle spent The fair was so successful that Above: Tim Swartz points to home for his daughter Corina at the fair. Be· some time wandering around the another may be held in the fall At low: Board of Appeal expert and P'LAC member Mary Talty explains the room, expressing his approval. "This that time. the PZAC will have nearly appeal.9 process to 801De interested residents. PHOTOS BY JOHN SHAW is positively fantastic," he said. completed a number of its tasks. in The process in Allston-Brighton, cluding recommendations for rezon· which had Lhe first PZAC in the city, ing of the residential neighborhoods. has "demonstrated that we can do the Other projects, such as a trnnsporta whole plan from the bottom up," tion master plan, a plan for creating Coyle said. The IPODs have been boulevards out of several major "the most important thing we're thoroughfares, and an open space doing-not the most visible," be plan, are still in the fledgling stages. added. Many of those at.tending Monday's "They could all be watching the fair were bearing of t.he IPOD (In Bruins, but they're here because it terim Planning Overlay District) for matters." he said. The fair concept the first time. The PZAC/BRA writ could work city-wide, Coyle said. ten !POD took effect in Allston Besides the BRA director, several Brighton last August. It is a two-year other city officials attended the fair. interim zoning amendment which bas Elected officials in attendance includ among its gwaeunes a Jo-toot oeigm ed City Councilor Brian McLaughlin. limit and a two parking spaces per state Reps. Kevin Honan, William unit reqwrement for housing develop Galvin and Eleanor Myerson. and ments of more than ten units. The in- state Sen. Michael Barrett. / May 6, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM Page 7 Decision-making time on the A-line By Jane Braverman board an already crowded train where Citizen Item Staff your 'scat' has already been taken.'· he said. It's been 19 years since the A-Line Vasiliad~ has also criticized the of the MBTA has traveled through methods used in evaluating the study. the streets of Allston and Brighton, He said that it did not weigh heavily but the the tracks and overhead ca· enough a community meeting held in bles -;land as evidence of the MBTA 's 1986 concluding that the overwhelm· indecision over l he fate of the service ing proportion of pac:scngers traveling car line that ran from from Galen along the Watertown Corridor fa· Street in Watertown through vored a one scat ride to the central Washington, Tremont and Cambridge subway rather Lhnn transferring from Street , to Brighton Avenue where it bus to car service at Kenmore Square. connected to Lhe Commonwealth Avenue line in Packard'.; Comer. Some like present. system "The buses wer ~ecn as the most cost effective [altemativej." con· Many neighborhood residents and firmed Carl Quackenbush, chief trans· business ov.-ncr. whose store.r minds'/ that the trolley present to both au· tomobile and pedestrian safety. Buses have been traveling along the A-Line trolley route since 1969. Some people believe that while Lhe "Me and many oLher people have STAFF PHOTO DY IULJA SHAPUIO study may have examined economic been working Lo convince Lhe MBTA from Watertown to Kenmore Square feasibility of the resumption of the A· going t.o happen when garbage trucks that we don't need the trolleys,'' com (Route 57) and an express bus running Line corridor, it hos ignored a crucial make pickups and load up their mented Judy Bracken of the Mayor's dumpster?"' from Brighton Center (Route 301) to variable -the people using the Office of Neighborhood Services. Rep. William Galvin (D-Brightonl downtown Boston during rush hours. service. "The tracks are hazardous. The Like many st.ale services, the A· "The opposition has made transit believes thal the most important fac streets are too narrow, and merchants tor lies in the greatest number of peo Line corridor was discontinued due to passengers look like second class would have a difficult time loading citizens," commented Fredrick J. ple that can best be served by public service cutback1; by the Transit and unloading their merchandise. The transportation along the Watertown Authority. Maloney, chairman of the Committee only positive thing (about the service for Retter Transit. a Brighton-based Corridor. '"The IA-Line corridor) had the cars) is the one seal ride, but. Lo me the lowest ridership and became too ex· group seeking to resume the A-Line "The principal issue is service. rm one convenience is outweighed by the not. sat..isfied with how oft.en the buses pensive t.o run, so the M BTA had to service. He mentioned the incon· hazards that would result in bringing run and their frequency," said Galvin, utilize the bus option," explained veniencc of the 57 bus route. which re the troUe\'S back." quires passengers headed downtown who has observed overcrowding on MBTA spokesman Vicente Carbons. John Bruno, ovrner of Brookline two bus routes. He will encourage the In order to prO\'ide access to the to transfer at Kenmore Square. Bag and Paper Company and past return the service cars' return if a case W atcrtown \'Chicle maintainance fa· Charlt!S Va iliades. a board member president of the Brighton Board of of the Brighton Historical Society. is made that. they will provide better cility. the Tran-.it Authority kept the Trade. agroo.<1: cables and overhead wires of the A· aJso mentioned the desirability of Lhe ··rm not against the trolleys. its service t.o the community. one· eat ride that tho A-Line offeTed. ln 1969. A· Line service was discon· Line Corridor intact. ln 1985 t.he just that Lhe st.reels are not wide .M BTA commis~ioned the Central "lt"s n royal pain when it's cold out enou~h tinued due lo low rider!'lhip, replaced to accommodate the trolley with two bus routes offering service nnd the bu i not there, or ha\ing Lo and other traffic.·• ho .said. "What's conti11ued on page 20 Here's \t\bat no dosing costs on our home eqtµty loan means to you. 1Wo hundred dollars. At least. That's how much you can save with Banlc of New England's home equity loan. You see, some banks charge you to close on a home equity loan. Two hundred dollars or more for the privilege of paying them interest. We take a different approach. If you base your equity loan on the tax-assessed value of your home, we'll eliminate the clos ing costs. Ifyou'd prefer to use the appraised value, we will arrange a property evaluation at your expense. Call 1-800-451-5115 for our free information kit. At Bank of New England, you don't have n top~ us for giving us your BANK OF busmess. NEW ENGLAND Member FDIC. G) Equal Hootjna l.endn Page 8 CITIZEN ITEM May 6, 1988 Future scientists display their wares By John Becker styrofoam and fast food containers. Citiien Item Staff New chemicals has been found that could perform the same function as For many of the 200 high school CFCs without their harmful effects, students who galhered in Cambridge Chen said. this past weekend, the ch('>mistry was "People should really learn whaL's just right. For others, it was the biol· happening to the ozone layer and ogy, the geology or the physics. what's causing it." he said. The annual Massachusetts Stale Students can get to the science fair Science Fair, held last weekend at the one of two ways. Each school may Massachusetts Institute of Technol· hold its own fair and send the winners Og)', and sponsored by MIT. the to one of six regional fairs. Regional Boston Globe and the Mass. State fairs may send up to 35 students to Science Fair Association, was the the state fair. But if a school chooses 39th of it.s kind in the Commonwealth. not to participate in the earlier com Judging took place Friday, while petitions, it may still send one student Saturday featured public displays of to the state fair. the 200 science projects and an Some have criticized science fairs as awards dinner-featuring $30,000 in "unnecessaril} competitive," Jackson prizes and scholarships-for the said.... " But you say, 'Yeah, well, so is winners. life . The atmosphere among the contes· Running a science fair at a school tants was tense on Friday afternoon, often requires an extraordinary as a field of expert judges circulated LWJan Musayeva stands with her exhibit at the Maaaachu.eetts State amount of time and effort that some the room with a list of the projects Science Fair. teachers may feel is best spent in they must evaluate for coherence, ac· STAPF PHOTO BY JULIA SHAPIRO. other ways. Jackson said. The teacher curacy, creativity and experimental or teachers who invest lheir time in rigor. Each project received five man called the event a "consumer plant (related to our pitcher plant) and a fair may get "a pat on the back" in· separate evaluations for final tabu review science fair." Students had found none of the side-effects as stead of the more substantial rewards lation. tested laundry detergents. tooth sociated with the West.em medicines. available Lo those who work on ath From planaria to ozone, cryst.als to pastes. diet. pills, the volume of tele For the work, Li won a first prize and letic events. he noted. coyotes and caffeine to chlorine. the vision commercials and the effects of a 10-day trip to Lawrence Livermore "Science fairs are not money·maker subjects for t.he project~ varied "all smoking on perception of wine aroma. Laboratories in California, courtesy of spect.ator sports." Jackson observed. over the lot,'' according to Brent the U.S. Department of Energy. Jackson, a Museum of Science educa· Boston ret.ident wiM prize Science Fair participant Edmund 'Real' science tor who has served on the Science Fair Chen. a sophomore at Brookline High Commiltee :.ince 1972-this year as Bost.on Latin School student and School, chose to test the capacity of Handelsman, who was a judge in treasurer. Issues in the news often South End resident Sonny Li was one our atmosphere's ozone layer to ab this year's fair, participated in a very show up as projects, Jackson said. of six prize winners from the school. sorb potentially hazardous ultraviolet differenL way ten years ago. The only Several of this year's students inves· tThe Boston Public Schools conduct.· light from the sun. UV light causes -contestanL from Natick High School tigated aspects of AIDS treatment ed lheir own Science Fair earlier this tans, but can also cause cancer, Chen in 1978, Handelsman won first prize techniques and a number of projects year Two Brighton students won a noted. He believes. along with a num for a series of experiments that simu addressed superconductivity-one of place at the state fair, though only one ber of scientists. that industrial chem lated atmospheric conditions on Mars Lhe biggest topics in technology this could attend. See below.) icals called CFCs are damaging the in order to explain some curious find year. Environmental issues such as Li's studies of the effects of cancer earth's protective ozone layer. ings sent back by the Viking acid rain and the depleLion of the causing anti-epileptic medications on He got the idea from a newspaper spacecraft mission. ozone layer also piqued the interests reproductive processes of nematode article about. a 'hole' in the ozone lay· On a tour of the exhibits, Handels· of students. worms showed that the medicines er over Antarctica. One of the causes man pointed oul how much the stu Noting the number of projects were potentially harmful for epileptic of the ozone depletion may be CFCs. dents were learning about how science which tested consumer products, Har women al risk for pregnancy. Li also Chen said. In his research. he disco really works. After Somerville High vard Medical School Ph D. candidate tested an herbal Chinese anti-epileptic vered that CFCs, once found in aer and Science Fair judge Karl Handels· medicine taken from the Arisema osol cans, are used in the creation of continued on page 20 THFSE DAYS,IT'S IMPOKfANT FOR ABUSINFSS munm ns CART m11IE RIGHI' HORSE. YOUR WORX1Nrking ,,.~.....,, checking account, why not make your working - "* - G)..,...,. __ May 6, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM Page 9 NEWS BRIEFS Mother always knows best••• DPU holds hearing on Boston Gas rate hike The Department of Public Utilities will hold a public bearing on May 9 at 7:30 p.m. in Lhe Brighton High School Auditorium, 25 Warren St., Brighton. The hearing will discuss public comment on Boston Gas' proposed Sl5.6 million rate increase. Brighton residents receive DSS awards Over 350 volunteers were recently ho nored at the Department of Social Services Second Annual Volunteer Recongnition Event held at the Sheraton Tara Hotel in Framingham. The volunteers have been participating in case reviews held in each of the 40 DSS area offices throughout Mas sachusetts since March of 1986. The volun teers have helped place children in heaJLhy foster care environments in order to receive the necessary services to achieve a Liniely and safe return to I.heir homes. According to DSS. the following people have aided children in Allston and Brighton: Jeffrey A. Busche!. Mary Ellen Cantabene. Janice L. Hamilton, Bonnie L. Mecartney. Noreen but maybe she doesn't always tell you! Hurley Storace, Carol F. Yavner and Trudy Mades. This Mother's Day surprise her w ith dinner at our place or hers and perhaps a Golden Temple gift certificate for Rufo hosts sheriffs' another time to make it a holiday she'll long remember. AIDS conference Suffolk County Sherill and Brighton resi dent. Robert Rufo hosted the Massachusetts Sheriff's Association conference on AIDS last week to discuss the impact of the disease in State and County Correctional Systems. The conference evaluated and updated the ef Tel. 277-9722 fectiveness of the policies and procedures set 1651 Beacon Street, Washington Square, Brookline forth in last year's report and discussed new information and legislation. The conference also discu8800 the proposed regional secure medical treatmenl facility for county and state prisoners. Cops continued from page 3 0 An unknown suspect attempted to rob an Allston resident at knife point as he used HE a public telephone in the Osco Drug store parking lot on Brighton A venue last Tues· day night. The suspect - described as a l 4-year-old black male. 5'6", heavy build. wearinng a blue jackt:t. jeas and sneakers- threatened the victim with a knife and demanded money from him. I The viclim fled on foot after the victim • said he did not have any money. A search ! of Lbe area proved futile. Community Service Officer's Report Officer Joe Parker reporLed that this 7.50% 8.00%* week there were 14 houses annd 18 motor FlXed rate on a 6-Monrh C.D., fr' The Providentu11r/Suu~11' Sn ·1•111J/fices m Hmto11 f./1.19500) p/ll.\olfte1•, m811ql11011 f787,1()JQ).DCJ1t licsll•1(8:]5 J<;(XIJ r.!.n9:!!:!J .\f1·111ht•1 FDIC. 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(('rt///C 1/11 '/\fl'.\!> lhUllOllt'W!cJl,O/ldffW IU/t' IS \l//J/1'1 //I IC /iUlllWOI fl'neu al ' • • Ra/1~ mCI\ By Jane Braverman of Neighborhood Services noted that Ciili.en Item Slaff creation of the Interim Planning Overlay District (lPODl has given The agenda of the recent Washing· residents more power in determining ton Heights Citizens Association neighborhood development through (WCHAI focused on three major the Planning and Zoning Advisory topics: current. development on t.hc Committee (PZAC) made up of com· Childrens Center, a residential health munity residents like Talty and Tern· facility for adolescents to be located pesta as well as city officials. al the Brighton Marine Hospital "The Mayor created the IPOD to C-0mplex. an update on Brighton lligb give [residents} power to rezone the School and a presentation by a real es· neighborhood," said Bracken. who tale developer who discussed his also serves on the PZAC. "Not all plans for two-family condominium growth is bad. but. we should watch conversions on Monastery Road and people so the area does not become Union Street. overdeveloped.'' she added. Members of the civic group did not Bracken commended the efforts of hcsitaLe t.o raise questions regarding the members of the PZAC. and !!poke the amount of supervision that the of lheir dedication and their impact on Children~ Center would provide for ils developers patients. and the decline of vocation· "It look a whlle for developers to al program!! offered at Bright.on High take (PZACJ seriously," commented School. When it came time to discuss Bracken. who added that today many plans for the two-family condomini· developers appear before the adviso urns, many questioned the value of ry committee even before they ap· creating four dwellings from the ex· Signs of the times: two·famlly homes and condominiums flank Union proach the rnspecLiona1 Services Street. STAFJ-' PHOTO BY .JULIA SHAPIRO isling t.wo, a measure Lhal would DepartmenL requesting a building bring more people with more automo permit. biles into an already crowded area. ed Mary Tally, a member of lhe Brighton and turn it into a condomini· "[Building developers! have to face Like many other parts of Brighton Washington Heights Citizens Associ· um. City services will ultimately a tough group of people. . they are and Allston. the Washlngton Heights ation who has lived in the neighbor· suffer, .. Tempesta said. educated. and have made a serious neighborhood. has \\itnessed a num hood for Lhe past 45 years. Students Indeed. many residents of Allslon commitment. making developers tow ber of changes in the past twenty have been n serious problem for the and Brighton are concerned over the the line." she said. years. The once predominanly family· neighborhood, said Talty. and have increased density of the neighbor· Tempesta, who is deeply committed oriented community has attracted had a reputation for creating noise, hood, whlch has mushroomed from to the preservation of St. Gabriel's Jarge numbers of college students and holding large parties and vandalizing 69,000 in 1980 to 88,000, making it Monastery and hopes t.o see it ear· young professional couples, driving property. the densest community next to Dor marked as a national landmark be out local re idents who can not afford Condominium development has also chester. lieves that the way to achieve the hlgh real eslaLe costs. driven out many long time residents But residenLs of the neighborhoods community harmony is by keeping "Real estate owners charge an ex· because of the high price tag. Lucy in Allston and Brighton have not re channels of communication open be orbitant price for apartments, which Tempesta, formar president of the mained passive. Over the past 15 tween homeowners and their non· caused housing problems for people WCHA and a lifelong resident of the years, neighborhood civic groups like residential neighbors. with families who could not afford the neighborhood believes that excessive the WHCA have been organized to "There has to be a continuous dia· high rents. Five or six college stu· development will ultimately hurt t.he deal with disruptive college students logue between residents and those (in· dents split the rent. forcing families character of the neighborhood. and insensitive building developers. stitutions] Lhat. sit on their front out of the neighborhood," comment· "You can't take every house in Judy Bracken of the Mayor's Office lawn," Tempesta said. ERS LI BROOKLINE - Begant SitTlllicity. 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BRIGHTON -1111 be a pleasure when your new home destination is Dixon Bain Ito Rodi CO-EXCL $n5,000 ttVs space. 2 bedrm. condo, modem kitchen & bath, fireplace, shel· BROOKLINE - Exel. Come home to elegance, 4-S Br's • 2 1/2 tered views from deck. MLS $139,000 Elaine Fine Kim Russell bths .. deck, 4 car parkg ..... Tuc~d Away On A Secluded Street BROOKLINE EXCLUSIVE - Graciously appointed Beacon Street Mady Frydman Jean Teich .. $378,000 condo. Lga. liv. rm & formal By Brian Gibbon one, but. there may be another one in the CBC Prei;ideot fall sometime. Keep your eyes open. be cause it was worth it. On Monday May 2 at the Jackson/Mann Community School apathy took the night • • • off. This was the night that the residents of Allston-Brighton could find out just The CBC was pleased to hear t.hat Cache what J.P.O.D. meant. They could find out was denied its license bv the Boston Licens· what P Z.A.C. meant. They could find out ing Board. This drew u~animous opposition what this group of people have been doing from the community. Don't the owners of all these months. night after night. To find Cache understand we just don't want them this out all they had to do was to show up here? We wish they would go away and stop Monday night, and walk through the bothering us. However, if they keep trying theatre from booth lo booth. These booths we'll keep fighting. were ~taffed by resident experts who were members of the I.P.0 .D. and by local resi· • • • dent volunteers. The work started early Monday morning with the making of signs and map boards, sweeping up the floor, arranging the dis· On May 19 the MBTA will bold a meet· plays, climbing around t.he scaffolding and ing at the Onk Sq. VFW Post regarding the putting maps together. This took a small Walert.own Trolley Line. The MBTA has army of volunteers nnd wasn't ready until supposedly completed a study on whether about. 5:30 p.m. Just. in time to go home and bus or trolley service is preferable. A sum· eat and change clothes and get back by mary of this study has been sent to the 6:30. Opening time was at 7 p.m., so we all CBC and other groups and individuals. This had to be there to greet the droves of in· study supposedly ex:mined various possible terested people (we hopedl. At about 6:45 combinations of type of service and termi· p.m. the people started to come in and nus. In the summary no details are given wander around. They ctidn 't stop coming as to how the study was conducted. We are until 10 p.m. when we bad to close up. We not at all impres!'led with this long-awaited had hundreds of people walking through the study. The study makes numerous broad fair asking all types of quel:ltions. And they generalizations. It concludes, of course. were all real, honest Allston-Brighton resi that the staLus quo is the best way to go. dents. not big shots, but Big People. They The MBTA has spent hundreds of millions ranged from living here all their lives lup of dollars on Braintree. Malden Orange line to 81 years) to just a few months. And they reconstruction and numerous other all had something in common. They all were projects. When it comes to the Watertown concerned about their neighbors. Trolley line they nickel and dime us. They You know they had to be to come out on are saying we are really not good enough a rainy night when the Bruins were play· or important enough to warrant special con· ing and wa had no big name draw to bring sideration. Another favorite ploy is to them to us. threaten to take away Mass Pike bus serv· This had to be one of the most success· ice if trolle}'!'I. nre restored. ful and informative meetings that I have In short, the 60-Called study is a disgrace! been to in all the years t.hat. I've been in· After 19 year · the MBTA owes the commu· voJved wit:h the communitv. This bas nity more-at least a chance to seriously helped spread the word that thlngs are hap consider trolleys or buses after almost 20 Ahead for J)(ming in Allston-Bright.on that will change years. They should do a two-year pilot the way we live for the better. It showed project and really give them a chance. No. that the community and the city are work the MBT A is too concerned with expand· ing together for one purpose-to make ing its suburban system and could not care business. Allston-Brighton a much better place to less about the 90.000 people of Allston· live. play and work. Brighton. IL took a lot of people to put this Clothes may make the man. But he knows dressing for together. too many to mention, in fear of success doesn't stop at his Windsor knot. So he comes to missing someone. BuL 1 think we can thank The CBC mailing address if P.O. 352, Supercuts. For a cut that's as sharp as he is. Mayor Ray and Stephen Coyle for their ef· Brighton, MA 02135. Supercuts. The haircare salon for everyone. Young Old. fort. And a special thanks to Jane Greene Hip. Square. And all points in between. Staffed with IBRA), Judy Bracken and even Ray Mal haircutting pros who have a knack for knowing how to give lone. Without their efforts there probably (Ed. note: The opinions of th!! CBC are their customers exactly what they want. Time at ter lime. And would have been no event. own. They do not neccessarily represent ' You really shouldn't have missed this those of The Citizen Item.) keeping them looking good between cuts with haircare products from Paul Mitchell and Nexxus. 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Sal 9 7 R.S.V.P. 523-7030 Page 12 CITIZEN ITEM May 6, 1988 AROUND TOWN By Clyde Whalen Citizen Item Correspondent Hard work pays off It's later than you think Apathy finally struck out. in the All My birthday feU on August 3, 1987, st.on/Brighton area when milling on which day (having been born in crowds of people showed up at the 1919) I completed by 68th year. Jackson Mann School auditorium Lo Now I'm nine months into my 69Lh take part in a three-hour information year, but if I should shuffle off this fair put on by !POD PZACers. mortal coil, the Obits would still refer Lo me as 68. The 15-booth display, including Setting up dis banners and posters, was put in place Add to this the fact that most of us play for during the day by a coterie of dedicat· IPOD. (when we are born) are already some ed civic workers including Judy P ZAC fair at months of age, depending on when we Bracken, Sandra Swaile, Ray Mellone. .Jackson Mann become active in gestation, and we are Jane Greene. Brian Gibbons and Ann are: Sandra all of us a lot older than we think. Voorhees. Swaile. Ann To those of you who con.sider this Astonished al the avid crowd recep Voorhees. Judy as bad news may I note t.he Indian tion were Brian McLaughlin, Keven Bracken, Brian perception of "daylight savings" is Honan, Mike Barrett, Mike McCor· Gibbons, .Jane "cutting the blanket off at one end mack, and Billy Galvin. Greene and Ray and sewing it on to the other." It was a just reward, this spirited Mellone. What I mean is. whatever is added public reaction. for the many unher on to the front can be removed from alded hours of input by this volunteer the rear, and only YOU will know. Allston-Brighton Planning and Zon ing Advisory Committee. * • • Bits and pieces With so many "dropouts" in our General Wagner indicated to The The firehouse on Western Avenue area (I'm one of them) it's a wonder will, if things go right, soon be oc 25 Harvard Avenue, ''Done Rit.e'' Item that the present construction somebody hasn't seen fit to stage a cupied (in all its historical glory) by peaceful demonstration at the state motors-a laundromat for automobile consisted of changing the Armory in six talented artists, who will use it as engines, is still discharging a sizeable Reading to include office quarters. house or at city hall calling for the studio space. elimination of the ''minimum wage" overflow into the gutter and down to New construction is not scheduled un Rich Allston/Brightoneers can look the sewer. on the grounds that it's discriminato til 1992. forward to having their portraits ry for us dumbbells to be excluded I could be hazardous waste. Inspec The new location, 15 or 20 miles painted or their busts sculpted. tional Services take notice. from Boston. will be an inconvenient from high paying jobs simply because It seems to be one use for the we're stupid and don't know nuthin'. National Guard Headquarters, lo commute for personnel living in and 100-year-old antique that most every My dream of becoming an as cated at the Commonwealth Armory, about the city. one can agree is pleasant. was scheduled to be relocated at tronaut (my second choice was brain Camp Curtis Guild in Reading, Mass., The move to the outskirts will not • • • surgeon) was dashed against the on July 1st of this year. affect the Guard's ability to respond rocks of bureaucracy when I flunked According to information received to an emergency. Cindy Rittenhouse is campaigning out of Boston Latin School in the mid from Nat.ional Guard General Wayne Transportation for those in the Lo get people into recycling. Joan of thirties. 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FROM DOWNTOWN BOSTON May 6, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM Page 13 Lou Nickinello, general manager of Ac· Billboards kerley Communications, echoed Gillis's comments that 1.he boards are a source of continued from page 1 jobs and are appropriate "in properly zoned SPRING CABARET areas in harmony with the neighborhoods." Ackerley owns about 90 percent of the May 15, 1988 • 7:00 p.m. visol}' group working on the rezoning of billboards in Massachusetts. ~ickinello Allston-Bright.on. is discussing designating said they are not opposed to the new regu· at Holiday Inn, 1200 Beacon Sc., Brookline certnin ti trects, such as Harvard Street, lations, "as long as they're not meant to do Commonwealth and Western avenues. as away with our industry.·· He said t.he com Dmner and Entertainment boulevards and restricting or disallowing pany, which was founded over 100 years billboards on them. ago, is more and more gearing its market M.C. Jimmy Smith of Comedy Connen ion Gibbons !laid that content of t.he bill to local advertisers and becoming less de boards is not necC!;sarily a major issue for pendent on national cigarette and alchohol Entercainmem from Diamond Jim's Piano Rar residents. "The communitv doesn't care advertising. what's on them. they juSt want them .. We need to be more sensitive. as do down.'' other media," N ickinello said, commenting Full course menu, limited seating. Ticket 22.50 Ken Stone, a member of the Charlestown that. the company tries to keep alcohol and For reservaumh, call St. Aidan's Rectory 277-0799 Neighborhood Council's billboard sub cigarette advertising away from school and committee, however, feels billboard content park areas. He remarked they hope they is equally as important to the community will nol be forced to Lake down billboards as location. "Children don't need to see but acknowledged that in order to conform tobacco and alcohol advertisements en· Lo Lhe regulations, some may have to be couraging poople to buy their products." he moved to properly zoned areas. said. Gillis does not consider the issue lo one Stone noted Lhat despite the fact that of if, but rat.her one of when. "We expect mosL of CharlE>.stown, like Lhe cities of Con· that the stale will enforce its own rules.'' cord, Lexington and Lincoln. is a billboard· free zone, there are six non-conforming bill· New rules and old boards in the legal boundary. Not only are tho six boards within 300 feet. of public-use In the early 1980's, Lhe OAB entered into open space. but i;everal are within sight of multiple-year permit agreements with a the major historic sites in the neighbor· number of out.door advertising companies. hood, inclucling the USS Constitution and This year, the last of those agreements YOUR CHOICE the Freedom Trail. with the state's largest outdoor advertisers, WOOD • WHITE IROll • BllASS "The first thing a tourist sees-or a Ackerley Communications-expires, and, resident-when they walk over the beginning this year. all the advertisers will Charlestown Bridge are several billboards undergo yearly permitting, according to FREE looking lhcm right in the face,·• he said. Jane Peterson. executive di.rector of the INSTALLATION .. \\'hen you're down by the Constitution or Outdoor Advertising Division of the state's A 130 VALUE by the Monument, you shouldn't be able to Department of Public Works. She pointed Pt ' Dl.OC.A! nn •V"RY CHAAG NOW THRUSUN sec billboards bigger than the houses out that during the last three years, the WITH THIS ENTIRE ADV around them." Beacon Hill. the oldest OAB has been meeting wit.h cities, adver federally protected historic community. has tisers and community groups, reviewing three billboards along Cambridge Street comments on proposed re\.isions to lhe ex· which the city snyc; are out of harmony with isting regulations. The new regulations, the ~urrounding historic neighborhood. which Lake effect when they are released by Cameron I.nne, executive director of the the Attorney General's office. "are more Beacon Hill Civic Association. asserted restrictive in a number of ways,·· Peterson that two o{ the billboards are within 300 said. feet of pu\Jlic·usc open space. Under the existing code. billboards can· Lane pointed out that. although Cam· not be located within 300 feet of public-use BROOKLINE-361 Boylston St., Rte. 9,-738-0400 bridg"' Street b zoned for mixed use. name open space and within sight. Under the new l-:. · lial nd busine s uses, the Lype rules, newly erected boards must be at least OEOHAM-910 Providence Hwy., Rte. 1-326-9586 of bu incsses 1t is zoned for are local busi· 500 feet from public-use open space, which Open Most Evenings 'til 9pm • Saturdays 'til 5:30pm ness . "We don't. think the billboard:; arc include-; parks and cemeteries. The new Open Sunday 12-Spm in keeping with that u,e." regulations also make t.he regulations for l.nnc also noled that. Beacon Hill resi applying for new billboards more stringent (OGS.5) dents arc not the only ones who think that by requiring LhaL they be within 500 feet billboards negatively impact residential of al least four businesses. The existing areas. adding, "Certainly our hope is that rules stipulate that only two businesses be aJthough it will be a lengthy project. thaL within the 500 foot radius. Peterson said they will be removed." the OAB is continuing to study how to han dle the existing billboards under the new Following the rules regulations. In ndclition, under both the existing and VINYL Don Gillis, director of the Office of Neigh· the new regulations, billboards cannot be borhood Services, said his office's goal in out. of harmony with their surrounclings, pursuing the billboard issues is based on but. this regulation is much less objective SIDING two factors: Lo involve residents in city then the distance ones and is therefore open planning and delivery of services and to to discussion. Kevin McCaffrey, spokesman FOSTER & GLEDHILL, INC. urge the state "to enforce its own regu from the Office of Neighborhood Services, lations." which along with the city's lnspectional Gillis noted that. billboards "can be ap Services Department compiled a list of non· • Custom Trim propriate in particular locations." He also conforming and non-harmonious billboards • Alcoa gutters and downspouts noted that. they are a source of jobs, "bui. around the city. commented, "We passed as an industry, they have a responsibility on r~ident ' s comments on harmony to let • Replacement windows to work with the city and the com.mu· them [OAB] make a determination of nitics." whether t.hey're in harmony or not." EXPERTS IN VICTORIAN RESTORATIONS featuring Restoration 3 inch solid vinal siding 100 homes done in this area alone! Take a look at our work! Fully Insured Call for an estimate 359-5274 • Wolverine Technologies Members of the Brighton lllgb School track team display their New Balance racing ehoe•, a gilt from the New Balance Athletic Shoe Company in Brighton. For details, see page 15. ST4'F PHOTO BY JUUA 81.lAPlRO Page 14 CITIZEN ITEM May 6, 1988 Bea cargo spedallst NEED on weekends EXTRA Be a memoer of our HELP? Aenat POrt ceam and tra n as a 1oaomascer. forlc!Jft ooerator or a cargo ~pecia1rst 1n ;:ne Alr Force Reser.ie Eam 900d P..1V. ma•.e new fneno· Dey bave • name (or Uuee) for le. next Wednesday, May 11. llaJ'c Prlmac of sn1PS ano aua11fy for soe Dedicating da.ys, weeks a.nd months to t.he Greenspace Alliance will present a c1a1 oenef1ts A oarc·t•me ioo-w1cn a foturei pa.rt.icul&r groups or people or 1ssues can slide show. A1 ~ AIOVT OIE be e.n effective wa.y or drawing publtc at llfSUVE G I llU.' tention to unsung heroes and overlooked 1'·11Ml6 topics, but the pra.cUoe may be getting out * * * of h a.nd According to our records. May ~oning Bo•rd of Appeal. ASK YOUR AIR FOllCf is roster Parenti Recognition Month and Approved.Kwok Wai Chan received an RESERVE ltECltUITER Older Americam llon\h, the week of May Interim Pla.nning Permit to change the le cat 1117) 161~7111 Or Fii ... ~ .... 1!111 flAy! 2-6 is Professional lllurses Week and gal occupancy at 87 Long Ave. from five T1 AM f11ca """"' ~ecnol!Mt Ona Clean Air Week and May 5 is lllaUonal apartments to a. three-famUy dwelli~ . 11119 ftle SI lllu..aAfl ••11731 Nurses DQ (be sure to v1sit Nurse's Hall Approved wtt.h provisos:Wllllam.a 4: 'Ure Pl.aoe your help a.t. the St.ate House for a ceremony}. AB Bertucci received a variance to change lo· wonted display ad ~ if that weren't enough. next week is Ba ge.l occupancy a.t 151-161 Su\herland Rd. 111 the "Career Opportuniues" of \ional Nursing Home Week a.nd National from three stores and a restaurant to zc Citi7.en Group Correctional Officers Week. And I'm sure three stores, catering company and Publications You ll we've missed a few. What's next? Hours? restaurant.. l'irs\ National Stores received reach 224.000 Minutes? Nanoseconds? an Intertm Planning Permit to erect a. :road<'r& in Greater demising wall to create two stores from llf' ~ n Boelon through .i one store at 1866 Commonwealth Ave. weekly * * * A.lB FOBCB newsp&pe1'8 Dominic Botolo received a varta.nce to Bi:BEBVB Cnll 232-7000 And they're o«. We.rd 21 Republican erect a two-car garage a.t 3<&B Lake S\. x36or46. Committee Cha.1rman Stephen Durr will Upcoming: Noxt Tuesday will be a busy challenge state Rep. William GalYin for day for monitors or Allston-Brighton zon- hts 19th Suffolk seat in this year's elec 1.ng. All eight hearings will take place in tion. But already controversy has begun. City Ha.11, Room 801. According to a report 1n the Boston Globt>, At 9 :30 a.m.:llfichola.s Abdul MeaaUe Galvin noticed Durr driving a car with New seeks a.n IPOD perm.tt to change the lega.l York plates and decided to investigate. Af occupancy at 625-533 Wub.lngton Street ter an inquiry t.o the Registry of Motor Ve from restaurant. ~d stores to restaurant. $99:ayear hicles, Galvin reportedly found that Durr's stores and bakery. The proposed whole· righL to drive is suspended in Mas sa.le doughnut bak.ery wa.s presented t.o sachusetts, which Durr denies. In the article. Durr savs he has lived in $100,000. Allston for two years but acknowledged buys that his car is registered out of state. He OF SAVINGS BANK said he would register it in Massachusetts. LIFE INSURANCE * * * C•cbe-blg bl'! One of the reasons the For more information call : Boston Licensing Board cited for thell' denial of a. license transfer for Alex Xav lakian. owner of the former Cache night· 1-800-255-SBLI club on Commonwea.lth Avenuo, wn.s the discovery that an alleged parking agree ~ ment bet.ween Kavla.k1a.n and the owners of Herb Chambers Honda never existed ~ (a.ccord.1ng to Chambers a.nd hls lawyer . Sc r.1n1? 'lassa, hu ells for ovn i5 yi'us. In a. meeting with members of the South •llLI 1s-;ona1W.k-tn .motmhUJ1 loS?S0,000111>" ,10111< !'W.!.Khu> Custoni THE BEST continued from page 5 WESTERN HOTELS enlered into exhibit·sharing agreements (Ease {.f T LC} with the city of Boston museum. !The New England Sports Museum people noted col \\?ALT HAt-.t laborativo ngreement.s with the Smithsoni· Ree 12"-Exit 2/A nn and other museums.I She also criticized arc offering eleganr the Sport..s Museum' colleclions: "In terms of a collection. they really don't have very fMS llOIO Wedding Packages much." r children under age 7. The minor league t.eams (boys, ages 7-9) and their sponsors this year are: Phillies (Brighton Center Elks 2199); Tigers (Grove Bank); Yankees (C & F Liquors); Athletics (Pizza Wheel). The major league teams (boys, ages 10·12) and their sponsors are: Cardi· nals (Union Warren Savings); Padres (Oak Square Pizza); Indians !City Store). The senior league teams !boys, ages 13-17) and their sponsors are: Red Sox (Oak Square Grille); Blue ,Jays (Sari~ and Son Paintingl; Dodgers (Corco ran's); Angels IShade Tree Volvo). The girls softball league teams {7-17) and their sponsors arc: T-Birds (Minahane Florist); Hits and Misses (Brighton Knights Athlelic A:osoc.); Breakers (Convenient Food Mart); Shamrocks IOak Square VFW Post 2022). Brighton Central Lltlle League: All major and minor league games are played Monday through Thursday at .McKinney Field on Fancuil Street at 6 p.m. Major League standings after week 1: Yankees: lW. OL; Tigers:lW, IL; Orioles: 1 W, 2L; Chargers: 1 W, lL. Suffolk County Sheriff Bob Rulo and Reps. William Galvin and Kevin Honan led the Oak Square Little League Next week's games: Monday, May parade on Sunday. Also visible are Councilor Brian McLaughlin (left) and Parks Department official Paul 9: Yankees vs. Tigers: Tuesday, May McCaffrey (right). PHOI'OS av LOllEN20 BEVILAQUA 10: Orioles vs. Chargers; Wednesday. May 11: Yankees vs. Chargers; Thurs day. May 12: Orioles vs. Tigers. Oak Square Little League began the cated a large portion of his life Lo the 17 teams this year. season with a dedication ceremony at league before his death last year. The league added two new teams AU-Bright Youth Hockey Association Ilardi.man Park and a parade to Receiving the dedication award was this year in a game called t-ball, in Rogers Park for exhibition games on Torigian's wife. which children hit a ball attached by The sponsors of the AU-Bright Ban· Sunday. The baseball diamond was The Largest Little League in the a rope to a pole. The teams-the tam Hockey Team (see let.ter on page dedicated to Sam Torigian, who dedi· neighborhood, Oak Square is fielding White Sox and the Brewers-are for continued on page 17 HUNGRY FROM WALKING Two bu dding athletes hold up the Oo.k Square Little League sign. PHOTO BY LOBEN7.0 B&VILAQUA Thanks to our sponsors To our sponsors: Bantam Championship and our Dis· trict 11 Mini One-on-One Champi· I am writing in appreciation to your onship. kind generosity and support of the On behalf of the young men who AU-Bright Bantam Hockey Team. represented the Allston-Brighton The All-Bright Bantam Team community, I wish to thank you for represented our community of your assistance. Without your sup Allston·Brighton with great skill and port, our players would not have had sportsmanship in the State Champi· the unique opportunity to participate onship Tournament. The tournament in the State Championship Tour· consisted of a six.teen (16) team elimi nament. nation playoff. Our team made it to I wish you an enjoyable and the final four semi-finals before losing prosperous summer. a closely played game to the team who eventually went on to win the tourna· Ray Sleeper, Jr. ment. The team's statistics for the Assistant. Coach, Bantam tournament were a 6.00 goals for and Hockey Team a 1.76 goals against average. Some of Board of Directors, This Walk tor Hunger participant took th e sign's advice and paused tor our other accomplishments this year All-Bright Youth retreshlnent a t Nonantwn Field in Brigh ton last Sunday afternoon. PHO include our A.H.A.C.H. District 11 Hockey Association TO BY LORENW BEVILAQ UA May 6, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM Page 17 State Rep. Kevin Honan; Councilor Sports At-large Christopher Iannella; continued from page 16 Michael Joyce (Speaker George Keverian's office); Ralph V. Ladd Co.; Councilor At-large Michael McCor 16) are: A & B Construction; A TS of mack; Councilor Brian McLaughlin; America; Academy Video Exchange; McNamara Funeral Home; O'Brien's Allston VFW Post 669; Alpha En Pub; Speaker Thomas P. "Tip" vironmental Services; State Sen. O'Neill; Peoples Federal Savings Michael Barrett; Big Daddy's Pizza; Bank; Quinn & Morris. Attorneys-at· Conrad Bletzer, P.C.; Blue Hill Credit law; Committee to Elect Michael Union; Bligh Construction; School James Reardon; John J . Ryan Insur Committee member Kitty Bowman; ance Agency; St. Elizabeth's Hospi C&C Electric Co.; Corrib Pub; Armin tal; J . Warren Sullivan Funeral do DaSilva; Ellis Automobile Acces· Services; Vo-Kon, Inc. sories; State Rep. William Galvin; Great Scott; Greater Boston Bank; - compiled by John Becker The Oak Square Little League P adres showed some team spirit on open ing day. PHOTOS BY LOREN7D BEVILAQUA • ' If you've been searching for a better historicbuil dings right next to the Arsenal your own Harvard Health doctor from health care alternative, the best pJace to Mall. We offer you a full range of health some of the finest doctors in NewEngland . 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And discover the cure for Our new center is in beautifully restored that offers you personal care, better the Blues in Watertown. coverage and the opportunity to choose Harvard Community Health Plan The cure for the Blues.™ Page 18 CITIZEN ITEM May 6, 1988 WHAT'S GOING ON GENERAL INTEREST Walk for Wednesday's Child National Dance Institute/New England Join WBZ.TV's Jack Williams for a 10 kilometer 4th Annual Event of the Year, a gala benefit. at Barry's Comer, Allston walk around the Charles River t.o benefit the Mas· Roberts Center, Boston College, Cheslnut Hill. Mu· Tickets now available for Barry's Corner Fifth sachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange. May 14, sical theater production with 500 sLudents from lo Biennial Reunion.to be held at Lhe American Legion noon. Meet at Daley Field. Brighton, on Nonantum cal schools. based on the 1912 "Bread and Roses" Nonantum. Post 440. California Street. Newton. on Road (near Watertown Square). 5 kilometer mini· st.rike by Lawrence textile workers. Preview May Sep 10. Full course dinner, souvenir photo. memen· course also available. For information about 13 at 4pm. ticket.s 85; main performance at Spm. to, door prizes. dancing. Tickets S20 each; limited pledges, call MARE at 536-0362. tickets $10. Call 338-3073 for more info. to 350 seats only. Send checks Lo R. J. Barbuto. 532 Rogers St.. Tewksbury, MA 01876. No orders ac· The West End House New England Songwriters Association cepte<.: aft.er June 25. Call 851-5295 for more info. 105 Allston St., Allston. 782-4044. \fay 14, 9am·3pm: Annual Book Sale Lo benefit 80 Gardner St.. Suite 42. Allston. 782-2036. May The Bos-Line Council for Children the West End House Boys and Girls Club. Hard· 14, 10am·5pm: "Successful Songwriting" Seminar covers 50 cents. paperbacks 20 cent.s. at the Mass. College of Art. 621 Huntington Ave.. The group seeks volunteers to serve on t.he Board Boston. Interactive lecture and workshop with Sbei· of Directors and committeeS. The Council is actively la Davis. author of The Craft of Lyric Writing. Cost: involved in day care, adolescent issues. legislation Boston Food Co-op Basement Gallery S65/NESA members. $75/non·members. Call to pre and community education. Volunteer opportunities 449 Cambridge St., Allston. 787-1416. regisler or for more info. are open Lo all cit.izens who live or work in Allston or 13righton. Call 738-4518 for more info. Brighton High Class of 1938 The Class of 1938 is in the process of planning its 50t.h Reunion. The reunion will be held at Lantana's in Randolph on Sept. 23, 1988. Please call 489·1564 or 1-366-4603 for more informaLion. The class of 1958 is planning its 30th reunion for October. Call 782-5086 for more info. Cooperative Extension Program/UMass The Suffolk County Cooperative extension pro gram of the University of Massachusetts offers free nutrition educalion for families wilh children and a limit.ed income who reside in Allston and Bright. on. Call Linda Rohr al 72i-4107 for more info. Jackson/Mann Community School 500 Cambridge St.. Allston. 783-2770. Teens Unlimited will have a free carwash Apr. 30 from 10am-4pm in the JIM lot.. Lo raise funds for teen activities. Donat.ions accepted. The Cit.y Roots Alternative High School Program is offering a program for persons 16-21 years old. who are interested in obtaining their GED or high school diploma and are not presently enrolled in school. Call 783-0928 for more information. Seniors: There is a free hot lunch program Monday·Frida) a\. 12 noon. Please come and join us for lunch Dog Licensing is held Monday-Friday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. at the office. Cost is 54 if male or spayed Mayor Raymond Flynn (center) stands with the winners o! the Boston Archtliocese student essay female, $15 if unspayed female. Documented proof contest, "What the Constitution means to me." From left: Melissa Parker, Kristen Manning, Mai of spaying and rabies shots are necessary. rin Allen, Justin Connoly, Lind a Tauro and Nicole Procida. The Community Summer Camp program will be gin registering children ages 6-12 in May. Four 2-week sessions begin in July. First-come, firsL· Hours: Mon.-Fri 10am·9pm, Sat. 9am·9pm. Sun. serve: sliding fee scale. Pick up applicalions at the 12-6pm. May 7·31: Color. Humor, Emotion. paint· HEALTH 'N FITNESS School office after ~fay l; please bring proof of in ings and drawings by Glenn Horvath. come and child's immunization record. Camp counselors wanted; full-time position, June Brighton Branch Library Brighton-Allston Mental Health Clinic 29-Aug. 26. Experience necessary. Also needed: ex· 40 Academy Hill Rd .. Brighton. 782-6032. All pro 77B Warren St. .. Brighton. For pec;ple who are un perienced teacher to work wit.h hearing-impaired grams free of charge. happy Wlth their relationships at home. at work or children in summer day camp. Send resumes to The Pre-School Story and Film Program, Tues· with friends. Brighton Allston Ment.al Health Clinic Mary Belh Callahan. JacksoniMann Community day mornings from 10·1l:30am-May lO:Creatfre bas group openings for men and women ages 20-45. School. 500 Cambridge St.. Allston, MA 02134. Film Adventures. For more information, call 787-1902. Teens Unlimited trip to Riverside Park. May 20; The After School Film and Story Program. Thurs m order Lo go, you must. attend the May 19 meet day afternoons from 3:30-4:30pm-May 12: Paul Kennedy Memorial Hospital For ing al 5pm. Call Hillary at 783-2770. Bunyan. Children l>eer Leaders wanted: Age 13-18. 8 hours per Afternoon Book Discussion Group- May 12, 30 Warren St.. Brighton. 254-3800. week. CaU Hillary by May 20 for an interview. 1 pm: Illusions, by Richard Bach. Support group for mothers of children with phys· The Individualized Library Instruction Program icaJ handicaps and special needs. Tue. nights from Mt. St. Joseph Academy for young adult.s is held on Mondays and Thursdays 6-7:30pm; begins Apr. 19 through June 14. Fees Reunion Banquet, Nov. 20, tickets 325 prepaid. from 4 to 5 p.m. may be reimbursed. Call 254-3800 x310 for more The Reunion Committee is looking for lost members May 5, lpm: Not to Drink and Drive Program. info. of anniversary classes 1937, 1962. 1977 and 1982 May 12. 7pm: Special Evening of Music with stil· in particular. Any graduate not receiving alumnae dents from the New England Conservatory. Saint Elizabeth's Hospital mail should contact the school at 254-1510. The Library is wheelchair accessible. There is also a space in the lot reserved for those who have spe 736 Cambridge St., Brighton. 789-2430. cial license plates for the handicapped. The Community Health Services Dept. will offer Pantry Needs Food a C.P.R. course on May 10 and 17. 6:3CH0:30pm. The Food Pantry at the Congregational Church, The 88 Room Non-medical personnel need only attend the first 404 Washington St., needs to be stocked year-round. class; medical personnel must at.Lend both sessions This pant.ry is an all-year program which provides 107 Brighton Ave., Allst.on. 522-7782. May ex· to receive American Heart Association certification. food for the needy. Canned goods. frozen foods, and hibit: American Living Retrospective. Hours are Cost $15. Call 789-2430 lo pre-register. dry goods are very welcome. For more information Fri. 6·9 p.m., Sat. 12-7 p.m. and Sun. 1-4 p.m. Relaxation and Stress Management Training pro call 254·4046. gram begins May 17, 7-8:30pm. Six sessions; cost Faneuil Branch Library S49, pre-registration required. Call for more infor· St. Columbkille C.C.D. Program 419 Faneuil St. at Oak Square in Brighton. mation. St. Columbkille's E lementary C.C.D. Program 782-6705. Thursdays at 3:15 pm: After School The St. E.'s Hospital Blood Donor program is in Films for children. will be held in the E lementary School on Sunday need of donations to meet current needs. The Blood mornings. Children attend the 9 a.m. Mass. classes A new Book Discussion Club has been formed for Donor Room in the Mother Mary Rose Clinic, children in grades 4·8. The club will meet once a are from 10:45·1 l :45 am. Confirmation is a two-year Washington Street. is open Mon.-Fri., 8 am.-8 p.m. program. Children must attend the 7th and 8th month to discuss books selected by members of the Call 789-2624 for an appointment or walk in. dub. Call for more info. grade C.C.D. classes to be confirmed. For informa· tion call Mrs. Marques aL 254-4392 after 6:30 p.m. Update on Eating La Sonnerie The University of Massachusetts Cooperative Ex 3 : 0 ~ Auxiliary No. 669, Allston Concert of baroque chamber music at St. Luke's tension presents a six-part television series, "Up and St. Margaret's Church, 5 St. Luke's Road, date on Eating," on Boston Cablevision (channel '~ • 7:30 p.m. Door prizes, Bright.on. May 13, 8pm. Admission $5. Call A-31. Fridays at 7:00 p.m. Subjects include nutri 926-3080 for more information. tion, exercise, and food technology. May 6, 1988 Cl'.f.IZEN ·l~EM Page JD - WHAT'S GOING ON CHURCH Allston Congregational Church 41 Quint Ave. Allston. Rev. Deidre Scott. The Sunday wol'Ship service is held at 10 am. Coffee hour follows. Everyone welcome. Brighton Ave. Baptist Church 30 Gordon St., Allston. Rev. Charlotte M. Davis, pastor. Sunday worship service is at 11 a.m. fol lowed by a coffee and fellowship hour. Sunday School is at 9:45 a.m. All are welcome. Brighton Evangelical Cong. Church 404 Washington St., Brighton Center. Rev. Paul Pitman. pastor. Worship services are at 10:30 a.m. followed by coffee hour. Sunday school is at 9:45 a.m. Thrift shop Thurs.-Sat. 10 a.m.-2 p.m.. A mid week service is held at 7:30 p.m.. on Wednesdays. Recently elected directors of the 1988 Allaton Board of Trade are: (seated. froln left) Joaeph Elleeo, Community suppers are held every Wednesday at treaemer, Sblomo Pinkaa, secretary, William Margolin, president, Max Leflmwith, lmmMiate past 6p.m. president, Donald Chambers, first vice president, Steven Sousa. second vice president and (stand· ing, from left) Steven Gordon. Robert Harrington, Wllliam Figler, Mark Wadness, Abe Gold.8teln, Community United Methodist Church James O'Connor; Robert Hill, Herb Harris, and Frank Moy, Jr. 519 Washington St., Brighton. Sunday School for all ages at 9:30 a.m. Fellowship break from 10:30-11 is celebrated on Sundays at 9 a.m., followed by Oak Square Seniors a.m. Sunday worship service 11 a.m..-noon. Call coffee and doughnuts. All are welcome. Steve Griffith at 787-1868 for more info. Oak Square Seniors hold their meetings on the St. Luke's and Margaret's Church first and third Wednesday of every month at the Congregation Kadimab-Toras Moshe Knights of Columbus Hall. Call 254-3638 for more Corner of Brighton Avenue and St. Luke's Road, info. 113 Washington St., Brighton. 254-1333. May 7: Brighton. The Rev. Mary Glasspool is pastor. Holy Services to honor all members of Sisterhood Eucharist is taken at 11 a.m. on Sundays and at 7 St. John of God Hespital Kad.imah-Toras Moshe, beginning at 8:45am. Rab p .m. on Wednesdays with laying on of hands for bi Abraham I. Halbfinger will deliver sermon, "The Healing. 296 Allston St., Brighton. 277-5750. Senior Lunch Power of the Jewish Woman." Program at 297 Allston St.. behind Stop & Shop. Mon.-Fri. at 11:30am. Free movie every Thursday. Hill Memorial Baptist Church Temple Bnai Moshe Sisterhood 279 North Harvard St., Allston. Sunday sched Veronica B. Smith Senior Center 1845 Commonwealth Ave., Brighton. 254-3620. ule: Sunday school meets at 9:45 a.m.., worship serv May meeting will be held on May 3 at noon, in the 404 Washington St., Brighton. 254-6100. Open ice at 11 a.m., fellowship hour at noon with Monday through Friday 8:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m. Lunch auditorium. Eugene Bonderman, pianist, will enter refreshments. There are special choral arrangements is served Monday through Friday at 12:15 p.m. Call tain. Monthly meetings have been changed to the 254-6100 to make a reservation for lunch. every Sunday. first Tuesday of each month. During May: The center's Art class will exhibit May 25: 5lst Annual Donor Luncheon. Full their paintings at City Hall for Older Americans' St. Aidan's Church course luncheon. prizes, entertainment. Call for 158 Pleasant St., Brookline. 277-0799. May 15, more info. Month. Sponsored by the Commission of Elder 5pm: Spring Cabaret at the Holiday Inn. 1200 Bea Affairs. con St., Brookline. Tickets $22.50. includes social Ongoing Spring classes include Ballroom and Line hour, dinner, entertainment.. Dancing, Exercise, Choral group, Chinese cooking, SENIORS and more. Free blood pressure screening 2-4:30 pm. St. Anthony's Church May 9, 9:30am-noon: "Brown Bag Pharmacy." Bring in your medications and discuss them with 57 Holt.on Street. Allston. 782·0775. AJI are Jackson-Mann Senior Activities a qualified person. welcome. 500 Cambridge St., Allston. 783-2770. The Senior Spring trip planned to see My One and Only on If you are interested in singing or helping in other lunch program is held Monday thro~gb Friday at June 23 at .North Shore Music Theater; call ways, call 782-5857 for more info. noon. 254-6100 for reservations. Lobster Clambake aboard the ship "Spirit of The center is always looking for volunteers t.o par St. Columbkille's Church Boston," July 26. Cost S22, includes transportation. ticipate in daily operations. Call for more info 321 Market St., Brighton. A contemporary Mass Call Diane Joyce for information. regarding activities. OBITUARIES ALFANDARY, Jean-Of Bright April 24. Husband of Ruth M. (Chan Society, Dr. Wm. B. Price Unit, 1355 of Newton and the late Rebecca on, on April 30. Husband of the late dler); father of Laurie Pendleton of Blue Hill Ave., MattapanMA 02126. Willens-Quimby. Services were held Dina (Marcus); father of Dr. Marco Middleton. Funeral services were held at the Agudas Israel Cemetery, West. Alfandary. Interment services were at the McNamara Funeral Home, NOONAN, David M.-Of Allston, Roxbury. held at Temple Emeth Memorial Brighton. on April 28. Husband of Mary S. (Ur· Park, West Roxbury. Remembrances baczewsltil; father of Maureen An may be made to the charity of your BROSNAHAN, Margaret K. drews of Allston, Capt. Kevin B., ZISJ, Spase "Sam"-Of Brighton, choice. (Featherstone)-Of Brighton, on April USAF of Germany. and Paul G. of on May 3. Husband of the late Doro 30. Wife of the late William J .; mother Allston. thy (Petrol; father of Mary Isveck, BAKER, Maurice-Of Brighton. on of William of Billerica, Margaret M. Robert G ., Diane Zissi, all of Bright April 24 . Husband of the late Jean Gosselin of Haverhill, Carol Emery of O'LOUGHLIN, Susan Agnes on, and the late Eleanor Markou. nette (Lipson). Interment services Washington, and the late Phillip M. (O'Loughlin)-Of Allston, on April 26. Former owner of the Pig · N · Whistle were held at the New Palestine Funeral mass was held in St. Columb Wife of the late John F.; mother of Diner. FuneraJ services were held at Cemetery, West Roxbury. Expres kille' s Church, Brighton. Mrs. Geraldine A. Bakke of Framin Albanian Orthodox Cathedral of St. sions of sympathy may be donated to gham, Mrs. Katherine O'Donnell of George, South Boston. the charity of your choice. CARDINAL, William R.-In Ar Hingham, Mrs. Bernadette McCarthy kansas, formerly of Allston, on April of ArlingLon, Francis T. of Florida, BEAULIEU, Evelyn M. (Jelley) 23. Brother of the late Louis, Walter John J . of Allston, Norman L. of Of Brighton, formerly of Allston, on and George. Army Veteran, WWII; Billerica, Bernard J. of Natick and the April 29. Wife of Joseph A. "Tony"; retired baker, General Baking Co. late Mrs. M. Eileen Stuart and Eu mother of Mrs. Janice M. Shea of Funeral mass was held in St. Antho gene. Funeral mass was held in St. SERVING TttE BOSTON AAEA SINCE 1193 Brighton. Funeral mass was held in ny's Church, Allston. Columbkille's Church, Brighton. Do St. Anthony's Church, Allston. Con nations to the American Cancer Soci tributions may be made to the Ameri FAULKNER, John-Of Brighton, ety, 247 Commonwealth Ave., can Heart Association, 33 Fourth on April 28. Brother of Ruby Williams Boston. MA 02116. Ave., Needham MA 02192. and Owen McCants. Services were held at the Davis Funeral Home, RODRIGUEZ, Concepcion (Gal BENNETf, Loo.is-Of Brighton, Roxbury. lardo)-Of Brighton, on April 29. Wife Brookline • 2n-8300 on April 30. Husband of the late Doro of the late Vincente. Private services thy. Loving friend of Sara Steinmetz HARRIS, Annie K. (Battle)-Of were held. Pertonal and Mio~ coun.. tlng Single and multi~~menl plans. of Brookline. Graveside services were Allston, on April 25. Wife of the late Paul R. L..,1,,. • Morrte w. Breznl•~' held at Chai Odom Cemetery, West Cornelius; mother of Archie Alford. WILLENS, Benjamin-Of Bright Bart>ara A. Levine • David M. Bl'9V1l1• Roxbury. Services were held at the Union Bap on, on May 1. Husband of Thais (Win tist. Church. Cambridge. Donations nerI; father of Liliane Willens of ,,_ ...... "----.ca1 .,...... ,~ BIRD, Marvin S.-Of Bri.ghton, on ... may be made to the American Cancer Washington, D.C .• Jacqueline Arons ,..,,_~. ... __., Page 20 CITIZEN ITEM May 6, 1988 ia was fed to an untrained one. while Science t he other half was allowed to regener continued from page 8 ate. Since planaria's 'brains', or nerve ganglia, are distributed evenly throughout the animal, Musayeva School junior Stacie Simmons ex predicted that the regenerated worms plained her complicated experiments .. .. L--=--~-=-:---• .... - !. "' would do better than the "cannibals." analyzing the resistance of bacteria to ~ . ' .... .,.. . :...... But the cannibals did better than various antibiotic drugs, Handelsman even the original trained worms, forc noted that the experimental tech ing Musayeva to rethink her analysis. niques Simmons used were nearly identical t.o those he employs in a The idea for the experiment came genetics lab every day at Harvard. from a medical experiment in Mexico "The judges are pretty impressed." last year in which an Alzheimer's dis· Simmons said. ease patient showed some signs of 'l'he projects are "much more valu· recovery after receiving tissue from a able tban any science course they will human fetus. "I couldn't do that in take." he said_ To explain his point, humans, so I picked these animals in Handelsman discussed the project of stead," noted Musayeva, who plans to Laura Horn, a student at the Brom major in pre-med at Boston Universi· field School in Harvard, MA. Hom's Ly next fall. fat.her's diet does not allow him to Chen, Simpson and Musayeva were have sail. but. when her mother at not among this weekend's prize win tempted to bake bread without salt.. ners. but, according to Jackson and it fell apart. Laura set out t.o inves Handelsman, they will still have tigate the relationship between yeast achieved something by participating and salt by using different bread in the fair. recipes. But she soon found that the experiment was much easier to con· •·I would like to think that the trol in the test tube and changed her process of the kid doing this and tell· procedures accordingly. ing other people about it is a set of "You could never simulate that Edmund Chen's Science Fair d.laplay has the look of a r eal labora tory. skills that is useful in other ways," process in the classroom," Handels said Jackson. man noted. (Horn won a 2nd place PHOTO 8Y JUUA SHA.PIRO prize and a $500 Hewlett Packard Co. Medford High School chemistry scholarship for her work.) teacher and science fair judge John Scientific experimentation is Tweedie said that he bad found "a lot fraught with unexpected obstacles. "It's one of those chances kids have of really good scientists" as he made unpredicted results and unforeseen to meet kids who a.re as interested. in the rounds. " I'm trying to sell them difficulties. Those demonstrations in on becoming teachers," he noted. high school science classes already science as they are. If they were adults, The interaction with students who have "the bugs worked out," Han have similar interests is also a benefit, d~lsman noted. But, as many of those it would be called 'networking.' " said Handelsman. "It's science geeks with proiects at the fair found out. -Brent Jackson- getting together with other science real life is rarely so fine-tuned. geeks," he quipped. " It's a supportive In the course of her investigation of environment.'' memory transfer in planaria, Bright on High School senior Lillian Musaye Noted Jackson," lt's one of va discovered the creatures' annoying selves to death, Musayeva was forced contradicted her initial hypothesis. those chances kids have to meet habit of digesting their own body to adjust her feeding schedule. Musayeva trained the planaria to kids who are as interested in science parts if they are not fed regularly. Af Also surprising for Musayeva were navigate a small maze, then chopped as they are. If they were called adults, ter several of the worms ate them· the results of her experiment, which them in half. Half the trained planar- it would be called 'networking'." dition to the approximately $175 water main and will return in early Street are waiting for thin~ t.O yearly water bill. He believes that the July to clean and reline the interior of change, drinking bottled water and Water city should subsidize the additional the pipe with cement to eliminate trying not to think about I.he color of cost for the water, but has met with sediment build-up. their water when they lather up. continued from page 1 little success in convincing the city to "It.'s a top priority," said Catena. " All it's good for is watering the foot the bill or take care of the In the meantime. residents of Niles grass." said Geaney. problem_ "People came to flush out the water receive and the number of complaints main through the fire hydrant. but it have been going down," DL\Jatale didn't get any better." said Greaney. said. who described what came out of his But the water discoloration tap as ''sheer mud." problem on the six-home street. is Residents of the dead end street another problem entirely, due to sedi also noted that. the state of the water ment buildup inside the street's water has altered their balhing habits. Caro] main. The unpleasant odor coupled Clamp. who recently moved to Niles with the unappetizing color bas led street with her husband and one-year most Niles Street. residents to pur old daughter, takes showers rather chase bot.tied water for drinking and than bathing in water that leaves a cooking. brown film her bathtub. But Clamp feels that the odor and "'When you fill a glass with water the bottom of the glass is brown," color of the water are the least of I.heir water worries. She believes that the commented neighborhood resident sediment in lhe pipe main underneath Andrew Murray. who fears drinking the street may be contaminating the the water and purchases three to four water. gallons of spring water per week. " When I talked to the Boston Murray bas lived on Niles Street for The repaving of Washington Street last year gave us this unusual view Water and Sewer Commission about the past 45 years, during which time of the A-line trolley tracks. the discoloration and the taste. they he has made numerous complaints to said 'boil the water to get rid of the the city's sewer and water depart swampy taste.' '· said Clamp, mately l ,000 more riders per day tben ment about the water problem. The The real problem, she continued, is currrently served by the two bus city responded by installing a fire the water main which she was told by A train routes, it would result in an annual hydrant two years ago at the end of the city is made from copper pipes continued from page 7 variable operating cost up to 42 per I.he street. and the increased water with lead joints. As water flows cent more than the bus routes pressure as a way to temporarily clean through the pipes. she said, it picks Residents concerned about the fate out the water main, which had little up the metal from tbe pipes. Boiling of Lhe A-Line trolley will have the op effect. the water will not solve the problem, Transportation Planning Staff portunity t.o offer I.heir opinion at a but rather exacerbate it. (CTPS) to conduct a study to deter public hearing on Thursday, May 19 "They opened the [hydranL) for a ''Boiling the water concentrates the mine whether to resume A-Line serv· at VFW Post 2022 from 7:30-9:30 couple of hours at night, and the next metals, making the water more tox ice or dismantle car line infrastructure p.m. in Oak Square. At that time the morning it was just the same," said ic," Clamp said. and continue using bus service to report issued by the CTPS will be Murray who was informed that the But spokesman Ron Catena con transport passengers along the A reviewed. Public officials and other in city would be back to repeat the tends that the water main on Niles Line Corridor. terested individuals are invited to procedure sometime this month Street is a cast iron structure and resi By comparing ridership, variable make comments. Comments from the dents need not worry about the safe operating costs. annualized capital meeting along with the CTPS study Bottling costs ty of their water. costs and revenue and service charac will be made to the Transit Authori· "It's good water, and safe to teristics of the existing bus system, ty's Board of Directors who will de For the past two years, resident drink," Catena said, who added that the 1985 study concluded that the bus cide whether to resume A-Line William Geaney has had approxi the water and sewer commission will · routes were the best alternative for service. mately 15 gallons of bottled water per be on the street within the next few the A-Line Corridor. The study also "The community definitely bas an week delivered to his home at a cost days to open the fire hydrant to in an concluded that while resuming the A· impact," commented Carbona. "We of $18 dollars per week. This is in ad- effort to temporarily flush out the Line service would attract. approxi- want to bear the people on ce again." May 6, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM Page 21 CITIZEN ITEM TV or not TV By Martin S. Gold.man uc me. I'm hooked on "thirtysome thi.ng." Even though I dislike being addicted to a T\' series, the yuppies have me cold. "Hill trect. Blues" just about wrecked my social life on Thurs· dayS nights because for years I'd rush home from wherever I was to catch Frank and Joyce. Bclk· er, LaRue and Washington. Lucy, Goldbloom. Buntz and Gaetano and the other guys on the I [ill. Six years of messed up Thursday nights. Now I watch the show on Channel 5 every night until 1 a.m. only Lo wake up exhausted every morning. And Fred Phinney wonder!'! why l can'l make an 8:30 editorial meeting! At. first, I hated "thirtysomcthing." I'd poke FEATURE fun at it to all my friends who liked it. After all. who could gel erious about a bunch of materi· alistic yups who spent an hour each week discuss ing vacuuming, their cuisinart.q, their problems get.Ling to tho Nautilus or the most hated word for me in the English language-"relalionships.'" Especially, worri::;ome was how the yups were gonna come up with t.be money t.o remodel their half-million dollar house in one of the posher sec· if going to the Hemingway house as a tourist. My Lions of Philadelphia (as such a section actual ly could ex.isl in Philadelphia!). friend said. "You know, you look remarkably like Stacy Keach this guy. Why don't you try playing him?" But slowly the insipid characters of Michael I had never really thought about it until that mo and Hope (God. l even boughl red suspenders so I could be just as cool as Michael), .Melissa !she's Stacy Keach has scored successes on the stage. ment. So I came back to California, and I contact· ~tayron screen and television, often performing very differ· ed a very close friend of mine. a producer-Jerome my favorite-I've secretly loved Melanie Hellman, who did Coming Home, Midnight Cowboy since she played the fat girl in Oirlfriern.ls and be ent material in the three media. On stage be has sides, she actually grew up in Philly in one of the received kudos for his work in the classics, such as and Day of the Locust-and I said, "Would this be a good idea to do as a miniseries?" neighborhoods I hung around as a kid). Elliot Jfamkt and Long Day's Journey Into Night. both (oow there is a guy with real problems-he loves of which netted him Obie A wards. In film he has He said, " I love it! Let's gel someone interested. Let"s go to CBS.'" We went to CBS, saw a fellow his wife and he loves making it. with other appeared in more offbeat work, from W estems like women-that never happens in real life, ooooh Doc, The TraL·eling Executioner and The Long noooo!I and NMcy (she's too skinny for my taste Riders to movies with Cheech and Chong and Pia but she does have a look), single Ellen who works Zadora. at City Hall rWho'd want to live wilh me; I don't On television be is probably best known as "Mike CLOSE-UP want to live with me") and goofy Professor Gary Hammer," alLhougb he has also worked in produc· who seems to be stuck morally and spiritually in tions for PBS as well as a number of miniseries such named Bob Markell, and be said, "Sorry, there's a the 1960'!1 without tenure (J wonder: how does as Princess Daisy and The Blue and the Gray. Most Hemingway miniseries in t.be works, on the boards. a guy with sixties hair relate lo eighties students recently he played Ernest Hemingway in a six hour It's going to be going any day now." So that was in those dumb lit courses where he reads Chauc syndicated production that aired locall}' on WQTV the end of that. er out. loud'!)-they all worked their tormented (Channel 68). In town to promote Hemingway, I went back to "Mike Ham.mer" and one thing led psyches into my Tuesday evening consciou. ness. Keach spoke about how he performed a stunt he to another. and about two yea.rs ago my attorney Each week I "ve watched the conversations that wasn't supposed to do, how he dealt. with his well· called me. He said, "You know that miniseries about almost produced a carbon copy of the painful ex· publicized problem with cocaine. and why he hopes Hemingway? It was never done, you know.'" I didn't changes between couples (conLrary to popular be to be back in Boston later this year. even know. He said. "They ran into financial lief. I was once a couple believe it or not.!) we all problems, legal problems. Now they're getting ready know and hate so well-stupid things actually to go again and the part is available. Would you be that couples blow way out of proportion and then interesLed?" wittingly or unwittingly allow. like a worm wend I said, "Is grass green?" ing its inevitable way into a cadaver. to eat its • How did you come to be playing way into what is still salvageable between two T W • Ernest Hemingway in a miniseries? • Did you already know a great deal people who once may have really cared for one T W • about Hemingway or did you have another. Keach: Well, it started about five years ago-six to do a lot of research for the part? years ago, actually. I was in Key West with a friend, continued on page 22 continued on page 22 THE MARKET PLACE BEGINS ON PAGE 33 Page 22 CITIZEN ITEM May 6, 1988 I Jove it and nobody else wants iL People say they Keach: I think so. That's all behind me now. thank won't do business. I guess it's because we took all Keach God. I'm well. healthy, happier than I ever was. 1 continued from page 21 consider myself one of the luckiest guys around, for those stories. exhausted them, and then we put. them all in space. The dream of the West was some a lot of reasons. Number one, that it all stopped and thing that was very much a part of my generation. I was able Lo get on with my career and my life. 1 don't think that's true of kids today. Keach: I'd been a fan of Hemingway's. l bad read, • Is that something that you've been One more film. What happened to I guess. maybe three books. I bad read a couple of • able to make use of as an actor? • things about him. AL the point when my friend took T W T W • The Ninth Configuration? me lhrough the house in Key West I didn't know Keach: Every day. It has to do with self-esteem. The much about him. From that point on, when we were Keach: That was kind of bizarre. The release of that low self-esteem that I did experience-the stupidi· was based on William Blatty's relationship with talking about getting it on as a miniseries, that's ty when you realize what an idiot you've been, when when I started really reading. That's when I real W amer Brothers. There was a legal entanglement you should have been in control of the situation at one point. Then he took it over himself, then he ized that this would be a wonderful. wonderful part is a very difficult thing to live with. Hemingway had for an actor. sold it to Embassy. He changed the title. he changed a very similar problem with substance abuse, with the film. He recut the film about four times. alcohol. I don't know if he ever came to the same It's a very special film. It's a very provocative • How is doing a miniseries different realization. • from doing a regular TV series? film. I don't put it in the same category as some of T W With me, it wasn't until I was willing t.o ac my other strange films. I think it's much higher knowledge that I was a sick person and that. I had quality, even though it doesn't quite work. Keach: You get more time. That's basically it, I a problem and that I had to deal with it. Up until think. The primary advantage of a miniseries, cer that point I didn't think it was. I thought, I could Your press kit biography talks about tainly from the standpoint of the people who are take it or leave it, I'm okay, I'm fine-without ac • making it, is that they can express themselves T W • all your classical roles on the stage knowledging the fact that I couldn't go to work ev and bow you're known as a serious actor. Yet you're almost as a novelist can when he's writing a novel. ery day without that little bottle in my pocket. It's very difficult-you could never tell Heming· probably best known for playing this hard.hitting way's life in just two hours. It's difficult even in a Mickey Spillane character, Mike Hammer. Do you six hour format. We're only glimpsing things. I'm • It seems that you've reached a wider have a problem with that? very frustrated with the fact that this man's life was T W • audience on stage and on television so extensive and expansive, it covered so much in than you have in the movies. Why have you made Keach: Not at all. Mike Hammer is a classical credible history, that we are condensing all that into such unusual movie selections? ls it simply luck of American detective-with his tongue in his cheek. six hours. Even at that it's short. It's superficial. the draw. It's pop art as far as I'm concerned. It's fun. I en joy it. And it pays the rent. • What was the highlight of the film Keach: Luck of the draw, exactly. Hopefully, that T W • ing for you? There was apparently will turn around in years to come. I would like to • So as long as you get to do other some excitement during the sequence involving the do some good movies. But if it doesn't happen that T W • roles to stretch a bit ... running oi bolls. way, I'm very happy doing what I'm doing. Keacll: That's right. That's the disadvantage of do Keach: Running of the bulls was definitely a high • It's not that you're going out of your ing a series, you get stuck and you can't do anything light. That was exciting. What happened was that T W • way looking for unusual movie roles? else. That's why I much prefer doing the specials. they were supposed to cut. The idea was that they were going to film the bulls and then they come over Keach: No. I think that came my way from the be • I understand that you're coming and show me waiting for the bulls, so that they ginning, pretty much. T W • back to Boston to appear on stage would have a tie-in from the bulls to me. Then the in Sleuth . . rocket goes off-and they weren't supposed to open • You've worked with your brother the gate. Nobody heard the word "Cut!" The T W • James on the Western film The Keach: Well, I may. I'm hoping. I play Andrew Spaniards there are so used to opening the gate Long Riders. Did you enjoy working with him? Wyke, and Maxwell Caulfield is playing Milo Tin when they see t.be rocket go off. Have you done anything else together? dle. We start in San Francisco. We're there for a Suddenly, I'm looking back and there are these month. Then we 're going to play in a couple other bulls bearing down on me. I never ran so fast in my cities on our way to Los Angeles for a month. Then life. So I got out of there. Keach: Very much. We did a project before that, we we'll be at the Kennedy Center for a month. There's did the Wright. Brothers together. (Orville and Wil· talk that we'll go to Chicago and that we'll come • Now that you've done that once, you bur for National Educational Television.) We're here. T W • never have to do it again. · workfag on a couple of projects together right now. Keach: I must say that I liked it. l mean, it was ex • With Tbe Loag Riders and Tbe T w: So it's not definite yet? citing. I don't know lhaL l would go and do it again. T W • Traveling Exttutloner you demon strated a ta~te for Westems. ls t.hat something you but at least I can say that J 've done it. Keach: It's not. definite, but it was on lh~ schedule. miss? Would you like to do more Westerns? Yes. it is definite, il's a matter of when. • I'dliketoaskaboutyourproblems\\;th T W • the law in England (Keach was ar Keach: Very much so. I would love to do more I don't know. I'm basically doing it as a labor of rested and served time for possession or cocnine.J Westerns. I live that genre. It's a shame. because love, because I love that play. I've always wanted Have you been able to put that into perspective? it pretty much just withered up and died. to play that character. It's a great, funny play.• series work was, at best, mediocre. You probably pays him and appears to take most of his cases gra beard Woody Allen's old joke Lhat they don't throw tis (does Hawk have a job or what? How does he TV or not TV out their garbage in HoHywood-to paraphrase the afford t.hose clothes that he must buv at Louis?). continued from page 21 master. they turn their garbage into TV series. At least in ''thirtysomething" there are the real However. Dick's really great stuff were the mo relationships (there's that word again!) between the vies he wrote and produced: The Execution of Pri people. They seem real at any rate. Hope ii:; angry 1 know all the critical reviews. Hey, I'm a high vate S/ouik and My Sweet Charley were two gems at. .Michael because be walks by a basket of laun school grad-u-ate. Who among us lives our lives to I recall because they were so well written. r think dry or forgets to take the trash oul. 1 can relate to tally surrounded by friends all the time? Who would Charley. which starred Patty Duke and Al Freeman, that. Trash and laundry is a big issue between men want. t.o {no offense dear Larry: the calls and con won him an Emmy. and women. versation every night are great- but I still wouldn't Dick Levinson died suddenly last spring. I had Michael returns Hope's anger because he says want you hanging around my house when I got not talked to him in many years. I have always won that he didn't see the trash or the laundry and how home from work). Wouldn't it be more than a little dered if he was in any way unhappy over the fact. can she get mad at him for something be didn't see. bizarre not to mention absurd to come home at night that his writing talents were so remarkably Maybe she is mad at something else and is just us· to find your best friends pouring coffee or white underutilized-even in the midst of all his surface ing the trash and the laundry as a means to get at wine with your loving wife (or significant other) just success. Two years ago I ran into another guy from him? Or maybe a lot of women have this trash waiting to share their mundane lives and their soapy the same infantry outfit. He asked me if I had beard laundry fetish. problems? What marriage could ever survive an of Dick Levinson' s Hollywood success. Then he said, How many of you out there have had that fight? endless stream of college chums and chumettes "Too bad he made it so easily out there. Maybe if Most guys operate on a different level of conscious prancing through the kitchen and living room at all Dick bad suffered a little, he would have really ness when it comes to dirt and clutt.er than women. hours. Still. produced something worthwhile.·· Although thls Women are more naturally neat and tidy. So wom The dialogue of "thirtysomething" is incredible. guy might have been a bit harsh, Lhe point was well en, trained by their mothers over millions of years These two guys who write the show. Zwick and Her taken. going all the way back to sweeping up the cave l 'IJ skovitz (also from Philadelphia, wouldn't you just If you just watch TV a couple of nights a week bet, are always looking out for that stray basket. of know!} are able to catch the kernel of yuppie con you begin Lo understand how a nation as culturally laundry or the trash that piles up in odd corners of versation at its very heart and core. impoverished as America can produce the political the house. Show me a good TV series and l 'll show you good leadership we've seen paraded through our living Recently somebody looked at a pile of old writing. I had a buddy in the army a thousand years rooms on the evening news t.his election year. Life, newspapers in my somewhat cluttered house and ago-Richard Levinson. Dick would spend all of his after all, ultimately does imitate art. After a con shrieked, "My God Marty. these papers go all the time when we were off base holed up in our motel tinuing diet of "Dallas," and "Dynasty" (I have way back to 1984!" "Don't worry," I said. ''I'm gon room with a portable typewriter. We'd be out chas never watched one single episode of either of these na read them one of these days." ing girls (yeah, "girls!" We were only between dumbo-wit. series- not only don't I know who shot Actually, it's my mother's fault. She was always seventeen and twenty for gosh sakes and there was JR, I don't give a damn). Is it any wonder that Gary · picking up after me and cleaning my room. When no such thing as La Steinem in 1958 Louisville or Hart or Jesse Jackson were taken seriously by I left home I naturally assumed that. she would con· Richmond) and he'd be always pecking away at his America in the last year? tinue to pick up my stuff and clean my room. But typewriter doing script treatments for TV. He even For example, take Dick Levinson's "Murder She Mom fell down on the job (my room looks like Doro let me read them. Some of them were pretty good. Wrote" starring the talented Angela Lansbury. t.by 's house in Kansas after the I.rip to Oz). When be graduated Penn, Dick eventually went on Each week Levinson and Link ask America to be I recently found a book under my bed (in between to Hollywood where he wrote some pretty good lieve that Lansbury does nothing for a living and the dust balls). I ordered that book from Book-of stuff. You may have seen some of it on TV: "Man· solves endless murders without pay- yeah, I know the- Month in 1977. One of these days, you'd bet· nix," "Columbo," "Murder She Wrote," are just a she writes mystery books. But my question is when? ter believe, I'm gonna read it too. It is back between few of the series Richard Levinson created with bis Or "Spenser for Hire." How does Spenser come up the dust balls so 1 'll know where it is when I want it. writing partner William Link. As a TV writer, he with the thousand bucks plus a month for his posh Is it any wonder that I can relate to the mundane was extraordinarily successful. Even though his TV Back Bay digs? He never seems to have a client Lhat world of "thirtysomething?" • May 6, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM Page 23 THEATER Be a Mensch-Tam.e a Shrew The Tsming of tbe Shrew. a comedy by William Lucentio as youlhfully fr~h and virtuous as he duding Otto's own good friendl and personal Shakespeare. With Jo eph Ziegler, Olivia Virgil should be. Time Winters does bis best with Horten problems call into questions the foundations of lhat Harper, Jack Koenig and Rebecca Borc:zon. Theatre s10 when that suitor plays music teacher Lltio. Re unity and the caliber of Ott.o's humanity. for a New Audience, North Shore Music Theatre, becca Borczon has the right combination of Unfortunately, Otto doesn't like what he is. 'I am Dunham Road, Beverly. Through May 7. perkiness and determinaLion as Bianca. In the sig· a worker." he insists. Yet eventually he admit..::., "l nificant role of Tranio. Ken Jennings is generally didn't grow to where I was supposed to." All the Men ch I\.leier. A drama by Franz Xaver Kroetz. authoritative. Meiers suffer from a deeply rooted sense of anomie With Richard Kavanagh, Mary Francina Golden Where there are problems in the cast. caricature. in Germany (read 'any highly industrialized socie and Michael Cobb. Trinity Repertory Company, 201 overplaying and lack of subtlety are the reasons. ty') that switches human purpose on and off like a Washington Street, Providence. Through May 29. Joseph Ziegler may appear regularly in Canadian factory generator and crushes human initiative. As stages of Shakespeare, but his Petrucbio often lacks Otto voice!:i his fatalistic range, "Before you even forcefufuess. When Kate's tamer should be shrew get going. it's all over." f all Shakespeare's comedies, Tiie ish himself, Ziegler is stragely pleasant. Graham The event lhat demonstrates that tho Meier fa Taming of the Shrew is probably the Brown overdoes Baptiste's ineffectuality. Sporting mily is 'all over' as a meaningful entity is a harrow· best introduction for young audiences a long white beard and an unsuitably squeaky voice, ing second act strip search conducted by the father to his insightful humor. Far le~s ser· William Prest.on turns suitor Grem.io into a close ap to find the fifty mark.s his son has taken (against ious than a work like A:> You Like It proximation of a Keebler Cookie elf. As Pctruchio's his wishes) for a rock festival. What Otto unCO\'C.rc:: and0 considerably less poetic than lhe Bard's comic man Grumio. Kelly Walters consistently overplays. as much as his traumatized son is a pathetically masterpiece A Midsummer Night's Dream, and far· Joel Kramer mugs shamelessly as Lucentio's ser shrunken father who must learn anew how to be a cical Shr"ll' focuses in part on themes crucial to vant Biondello. Worst of all is William Buell's dou human being. adolescents: role playing. conformity and identity. ble distortion as far too slapstick pedant and a Disgusted by her husband's dehumanizing search Since the Beverly co-production of New York's ridiculously effeminate tailor. Clearly some actors and a later violent out burst during which he does fheatrn for a New Audience and the North Shore need to be reminded that. farce requires a lighter everything but physically abuse her (including Music Theatre may be the first theater-going ex· touch. breaking a television and a lamp). Martha mO\'es to perience for many of nearly twenty thousand stu " 'Tis the mind that makes lhe body rich ... asserts a roominghouse and sells slipper~ in a department dent patrons, this \'ersion should come across as lively but not liberty-taking. The happy news for young adult audiences alike is that dt-signer-direct.or Julie Taymor has cnpturcd Shrew's simple virtues without taming its vitality. Admittedly. there are momenL" when farce becomes vaudeville character and some of the acting verges on shameless mugging. Nevertheless, her New York company sLands to enlarge Massachusetts theater audiences as significantly as Boston-based Cham ber Repertory does. JULES BECKER Appropriately. Shrew is as much a learning ex perience for its principal characters as for its au dience. During the course of this early (dated b5• scholars between 1590 and 15941 comedy. the three couples of its play-wilhin-n·play gain valuable les son~ about human beings and society's centurics old battle of the sexes. While the main combattants-Verona's Petruchio and Padun's Katharina · cannot compete with Much Ada A bout Not/ring's Benedict and Beatrice for wit or wisdom, the fonner pair are unquestionably lhe more famous couple. · If they are, the reason is primarily the far more dramatic nature of their conflict and its resolution. Cocky Petruchio means to tame the shrewish older daughter of his late father's wealthy friend Baptis· ta Minola of Padua and to marry her. In Lhe play's main subplot, no Jess eager Lucentio. son of rich Pi san citizen Vincentio, plans to win Kate·s heavily suitored younger sisLer Bianca. Lucentio most not only win out over rivals-Hortensio and Gremio and also hope that Katerina agrees to her own match wilhout delay. Resembling the biblical Laban. who insists on marrying off older daugter Leh to Jacob before younger Rachel. Baptista has decided lhat Kate will precede Bianca. While Petruchio secures Baptista's permission to .Richard Kavanaugh and Mary Francina In Mensch Meler marry the Shrew and sets about turning her into an obedient spouse. Lucentio adops the guise of tu· t.or Cambio to Bianca (with bis man Tranio assum· Petruchio. Taymor's production may sometimes fall store. Ludwig apprent.tces as a bricklayer-in spite ing his identity) in order to carry out his own . just short of Shakespearean observation on charac· of his parents' misgivings and biases-and finds his calculated wooing. Once the young Pisan wins Bi ler and conviction. but there is enough of The Tam own living quarters. anca's hand. Paduan Hort.ensio finds himself a ing of the Shreu• 's saucy conceptual sau<'}' flavor to Will Ott.o Meier be able to grow into a real Mensch widow willing to marry again. appeal to et•en the most cynical high schoowr. ~leicr once he is on his own? Playwright Kroetz Indeed. disguise and mtrigue propel the play into offers no easy optimism. One thing is clear. Hav its three-fold 'happy ending" an function as devices ing destroyed the model of aircraft that symbolized through which the themes of role-playing and iden Munchen his quest for freedom during his second act rage. tity develop. Probably no other Shakespearean Otto must now chart the course of his excursion into comedy depends as extensively on characters In far different ways and wit.h total seriousness, integrity entirely by himself. masquerading as others. Besides Lucentio's Cam Trinity Repertory Company turns the family con Under Hall's disarmingly unobtrusive direction, bio and Tranio's Lucentio, a pedant passes for Vin flict and professional discontent of German the three-member cast are topnotch. Richard centio and Horten.,qio plays music teacher Litio. playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz's Mensch Meier Kavanaugh gives one of the finest performances Even the short frame play features the crossdress· into visually gripping and vocally memorable state New England bas seen this year as'a pathological ing of a page as a lady for tinker Christopher Sly. ment about the never-ending struggle for human ly insecure man and laborer. Trinity should video Shakespeare's own spectator for the inner play's un· dignity. Theatre Works may have amazed small tape the strip search and OLt.o's destructive fury at folding. Boston audiences at Suffolk University with an ar· the Meier home and show them to all budding ac Director Taymor, who distinguished herself creat resting earlier performances of Kroelz's visionary tors. His Otto is a disturbing tour de force. ing sets, costumes, masks and puppets for the 1978 drama (you will think of factory workers in Mary Francina Golden is quietly force as an emo Amencan Repertory Theatre's notably evocative Pittsburgh or Detroit), but Trinity's version virtu tionally battered wife. Only occasionally does her King Stag, understands the broad dimensions of ally brings its Providence house down with the in Martha seem too compliant. Michael Cobbs is rivet Shrew plotting and humor and proceeds according· tensity of artistic director Adrian Hall's staging. ing!}' uptight and untrusting as Ludwig. ly. Making full use of North Shore's theatre in the Set in a high-rising housing project. in 1976 Eugene Lee has designed a set as austere and un round, she puts the actors through fairly brisk Munich (spring and summerl, Mensch Meier strips settling as the Meiers' future. pacing. bare the middle class platitudes that kept alive the A victim of her own catch phrases, Mart.ha coun Most of the principal performances work. Olivia precarious family unity of BMW "screwster" Otto, sels Otto: "Quality has its price." Trinity audiences Virgil Harper effectively contrasts the rambunctous his unrealistically cheery housewife Martha and need only buy a ticket to see this priceless Mensch and reserved sides of Katharina. Jack Koenig makes their deeply aleinated son Ludwig. Plant layoffs (in· Meier. • Page 24 CITIZEN ITEM May 6, 1988 MOVIES The Last Sunset-We Hope! Sunset, written and directed by Blake Edwards. With James Gamer, Bruce Willis, Malcolm McDowell, Mariel Hemingway. A Time of Destiny, directed by Gregory Nava, writ.· ten by Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas. With Wil· liam Hurt, Timothy Hutton, Melissa Leo, Stockard Channing. bout twenty years ago director Blake Edwards had a fight with a major Hollywood studio over a film he was making which resulted in his moving out of the country. It was many yearsA before he returned to Hollywood Lo make S.O.B.-a savage satire about the movie business. One would have hoped that that had settled the score. Unfortunately Edwards has continued to wreak his vengeance, only Lhe victims now are not the stu· dios but the moviegoing public. Consider just a few of his more recent films like Blind Date. Micki and Maude, A Fine Mess and The Man Who Loued Women. It's not a pretty picture, and neither is his latest effort, Sunset. DANIEL M. KIMMEL The story concerns a fictitious meeting in 1929 between cowboy movie star Tom Mix (Bruce Wil· lis) and real life Western legend Wyatt Earp IJ ames Gamer). Earp is supposed to have been hired as a technical advisor to the film Mix is making. The central story concerns lhe death of a Holly· wood call girl and Earp's interest in seeing that justice is done. Forty·five minutes into the picture it's fairly clear who the bad guys are, but Edwards insists on flogging the plot for yet another hour. Gamer is wonderful as Earp. but he bas been abandoned in a hackneyed script. It. actually con· t.ains lines like. "You'll never work in this town James Garner and Bruoe Willis io Sunset again," which was probably already a Hollywood cliche by 1929. He is also saddled with Willis, who smirks his way through the movie as if he just can't Nava's camerawork which seems to go out of his In these days where any movie with an element believe our good fortune in getting the opportuni· way to call attention t-0 itself, but number one on of suspense automatically sends critics scurrying to t.y Lo see him act. In one seemingly endless scene, the list bas got to be Hurt.'s performance. It isn't their dogeared copies of Francois Truffaut's Hitch· we even got to see him tango. that he doesn't try hard at it, but that he is com· cock interviews or Donald Spoto·s The Art ofAlfred We see very little of I.he Cilmmaking business of pletely wrong for the part. It's like putting Clint Hitchcock, it's helpful to point out that the press the era which is just as well, since Edwards gets Eastwood in a Neil Simon comedy. He just.doesn't notes for the film brag about how art designer Hen· most of it WTong. From having a major film fit. ry Bumstead went about "drawing on his experience producer fight the urge to make talkies (an issue After a flashy opening in which we are invited to on the Hitchcock classic" in constructing the pretty well sett.led by 1929) to suggesting that take the point of a view of a German shell being fired belltower. Somewhere Hitch must be laughing his Charlie Chaplin was leading the transit.ion t.o sound during a World War II battle, we get an extended head off. For years he was dismissed as the maker (he was actually the longest holdout, waiting until flashback into the life of Jack (Timothy Hutton), an of "mere.. thrillers. Now filmmakers can't seem to 1940), writ.er-di.rector Edwards simply can't be earnest private who has been writing to his wife make a movie without invoking his ghost. bothered to get his facts straight. He doesn't even Josie (Melissa Leo). Josie's immigrant father disap So as we wait for the next William Hurt film, let's get the year of I.he first Academy Awards right. proved of the marriage, and through a rather obvi· recall Joe E. Brown's classic closing line in Some Edwards adds further insult to injury with his ous twist in the plot, her father dies with the family Like It Hot; "Nobody's perfect."• clumsy direction. The stunts for Willis-and for blaming Jack. Malcolm McDowell as the acrobat-comedian turned Enter Martin (William Hurt), the black sheep of studio head-are so poorly edited that a child could the family, who decides he must avenge his father's figure out that someone etse is doing all the really death. He arranges to be assigned to the same bat difficult stuff. When stunts are do.Je right, you talion as Jack, using an Americanized version of the shouldn't have time to think about anything but the family name so as not to give away his identity. story. With Sunset, that's the last thing you'll want Now be must find a way to get his imagined revenge. to think about. Why go on? This is a movie where a character is As the young lovers, Hutton and Leo veer from looking doe-eyed to grimacing earnestly, but they in jail in one scene and free in another with out. tell· ing us how be got. out.. Edwards has even sunk to manage to invest their B·movie characters with a stealing material from other sources including Ar· certain amowit of life. Francisco RabaJ's characteri· chie Bunker (:\tix yells for his Jewish lawyer) and zation of the father comes complete with an extra Friday the 13th (a supposedly dead character thick Basque accent that. must be heard to believed. springs back to life.). Meanwhile Hurt may be a gifted actor. but even The truly amazing thing is that all this is from he has difficulty persuading us that he is a first a director who once turned out movies like Break· generation son of Basque immigrants, and that he fast at Tiffany's, Days of Wine and Roses and the feels the need to shed blood for the family's honor. original Pink Panther films. One could almost. be an Give him credit for trying something different but gry for the audiences and critics who have had to don't make us watch the results. ' endure his recent output, if it wasn't so very sad. Hurt again Of course even if Hurt was Laurence Olivier-and there's no reason to suppose he might not. someday reach that stature-he can't rescue the mediocre U Edwards career is in tragic decline, actor Wil material through which he and the rest of the cast liam Hurt's is on the upswing. In his eight years must slog. As with too many movies, A since his film debut in Altered States, Hurt has Ti.me of Destiny is less about ideas and emotions turned in memorable performances in movies like than about how movies present such things. Body Heat, The Big Chill, Kiss of the Spider Wom· The plot chugs along, with the inevitability of a an, Children ofa Lesser God, and Broadcast News. steam roller, until the climactic confrontation in a We conveniently overlook lesser films like Eyewit· church bell tower. Indeed, it's the very same church ness and Gorky Park, because his good work so where Jack and Josie got married in what seems like clearly outweighs his occasional "off" film. Now we hours and hours before. The grave of poor Alfred must overlook A Ti.me of Destiny as well. Hitchcock is once agained robbed to drag out some There are a lot of things wrong with the film, from third-hand effects from the similarly set climax of Wfiliam Hurt and M elissa Leo fn A Tl.me its turgid melodramatic premise to director Gregory Vertigo. ot DestizJy May 6, 1988 CITIZEN ITEM Page 25 MUSIC rhythm guitarist, Frank Stampedro plays keyboards). And there's a num ber of throwaways that sound like throwaways, notably "Life in the City"-where Young doesn't sound sure whether to write an urban pro test song, or a parody of same. We could end this review with the usual cheap shots about the weird album Young's going to make next year, but consider this: Last year he made a near-classic nalural Neil Young album Life, and it flopped. Does that mean he'll never try again? Slugging Match or the Week It's always fun when rock bands break up and start calling each other names in the press. We got in lhe mid· dle of one such match this week. when we interviewed ex·members of the group Bauhaus, an influential band who made some dark. Bowie influenced albums in post-punk Lon don. Most of Bauhau:; bas lightened up and formed the more commercial band Love & Rockets. who played the Orpheum lwo weeks ago; meanwhile singer Peter Murphy is breaking in lhe solo career. "I don't think Peter's work touches anything we did in Bau· haus." sniped Daniel Ash of Love & Rockets. "It's not my sort of thing at all; I don't hear any character in it." Neil Young and the Bluenotes We relayed that quote to Peter Mur· phy a few days later, and got this response: "I know Danny very well, but as time goes by, I realize he doesn't know me that much. We had similar sensibility in Bauhaus; we Young at Heart were the ones who were t.he most simi· lar. We're not very agreeable nowa· days, but he's very successful and I'm t's time once again for our ists; but that's about all it does. cuse to play a bunch of blues guitar happy for him. Murphy came off as annual story about what There's the same level of depth in solos; but there are worse reasons for the more gracious of the two; his new weird album Neil Young bas "Hey Hey" ("Get off that couchfrum this album. The best moments sound album Love Hysteria has its artsy just made. We must admit, off that MTV"-how come it's only like something the "real," Neil Young lapses but generally represents a suc however, that we guessed old rock stars who write about MTV?) might play at 4 a.m. after a gig. Un cessful attempt to come back to earth. wrongI about what kind of record and "Ten Men Workin' " ("We are fortunately. the album is only good As for Love & Rockets. they played Young was going to do next. After men at work/We gotta keep you rock· when it's goofy; when he tries to get an incredibly spotty show at the hls hlgh-tech album, his country al in' "-Too bad the band Men at Work semi-serious, he makes you wonder Orpheum {and most people thought bum, hls punk album and his rockabil split up before they could cover this). where the old spark went. The six "spotty" was putting il kind). but ly album. we were sure that his next Now that we've spent more time on minute finale, "One Thing," is meant "No New Tales to Tell," their lovely record was going to be surf music in the lyrics than Young did, we can get to be a great plodding rocker in the single from December, hasn't worn Swahili. Instead. Young evidently to the real point of the album-which Crazy Horse tradition, but winds up thin yet. realized that he hasn't done a rhythm is that it sounds good. The record may plodding to nowhere {this band clear and-blues album yet, and that he well exist just to give Young the ex- ly isn't Crazy Horse, although its That Was the Week That Was hasn't worked with a horn section af. ter all these years. The result is This A good week for us pop fiends, Note's For You, which is hopefully be capped off by two nights by the ing marketed by his label as "the Neil Smithereens at the Paradise. The Young album you've been waiting band was visibly miffled the first for" {which translates into, "You night, because the st.age monitors won't bate this one. honest"). Don't weren't working and they couldn't al believe a word: If you've been waiting ways tell what they were playing. for Young to make a conventional al Didn't bother us, because the past bum, this still isn't it (and it's your years of constant touring means the fault for ignoring last year's Life, his band can play okay by intuition; and best record since 1980). On the other the new songs from the Green band, if you've gotten a kick out of Thoughts album are finally starting the chameleon moves that have de Lo kick in. The first night was high fined Young's career for the past lighted by a string of ballads from the seven years, and if you were glad to new one, peaking with the gorgeous join him while he laughed up his "Spellbound." The band kicked loose sleeve, you'll like this one too. the second night. throwing a cover of the Who's ''Substitute" and hitting BRETT MILANO more of their garage roots As a follow-up to 1984 's notorious The It all depends on whether you want Best of Louie, Louie, Rhino Records to fault Young for making a dumb fun is about to release The Best of La record-especially because this a bet· Bamba, continuing more versions of ter dumb fun record (because it's less the recenUy-revived song than you'd dumb and more fun) that hls bargain ever want to bear. Included will be basement rockabilly LP, Everybody's Richie Valens' orginal, plus a version Rockin·. But the new album really has by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The more in common with 1986's "rock" mind boggles Finally. a brand new album lA.nding on Water-because in single from Prince. So far "Alphabet both cases, it sounds like Young wrote Street" isn't burning up lhe airwaves, the entire lyrics in a half-hour before possibly because it's one of his quirk· breakfast. The title track, for exam iest singles to date. But it still follows ple, takes this shot at corporate spon· a recent Prince delour: His urge to sorship: " Ain 'l singing for fuse hard funk with mind-expanding PepsiJAin's singing for Coke;Ain't psychedelia. The record has almost singing for nobody/Makes me look loo many elements to work: A rap like a jokerrhis notes for you." Nice break by Cat (the dancer) from the idea. except that's as deep as the lyr Sign O' the Times film), a "When ics go-in fact, that's half the lyrics Doves Cry" drum program, a long right there (John Fogerty did the dance break, a promise to "talk so same thing much better with "Soda sexy you'll want to touch me from my Pop"). The song is still a slap in the head to feet," and a wonderfully goofy face lo Clapton and the other Peter Murphy "yeah, yeah, yeah" chorus. Like we Michelob sellers, simply because it ex- said, it shouldn't work, but it does. • Page 26 CITIZEN ITEM May 6, 1988 Secondly, to buy into lhe argument By Judith Wollf that a woman 'deserves' to be raped for wearing a low·cut blouse. or for ne night in t.he mid· THE SUBJECT IS getting into a car with three men she le of August. lwenty· knows from work. is to ignore the one year old Julie. a very real fact lhut when it comes to college student woke rape. men have a choice.: to do or not. up because? something , to do it. We are not at the mercy of or0 11omeone had sat down on her hcd. our sexual drives: we can and do make A heavy sleeper, ~he hadn't heard the choices. 'o matt.er how a woman im ruder lift the screc'll from out.side dresses, no matter what ~he said or and climb in though the window. did in the days or hours or moments When she opened her eyes a hand was leading up to a rape, when a man coming down over her face and she forces himsetr on n woman he h; act· heard a voice, a white male voice, ~IJ. ing decisively. ing her not to panic, not to make any We also talk about women':; rape noise. ''My wallet was stolen." he fantasies and justify ~ome rapes as said. "Somebody stole my wallet. Did acts of wish fulfillment. Il may be you steal my wallet'?'' true that some. perhaps many. wom· She hadn't of course; nor had she en fantasize about being seduced, ever seen the man- a kid. actually, overcome or raped. How this gets not much older than seventeen or Lranslat.ed by some into a "real" eighteen-before in her life. But she desire t.o be ''really" raped isn't terri· knew what he wanted. And she knew bly clear. The woman who imagines a lhat her survival depemled in part on rape scenario in the prh-acy of her how she responded lo him. As the in· own mind is in complete control of her truder look off his clothe . J ulic told thoughts, from beginning to end. She him as calmly and as flatly as she sets tho tone, she establishes the set· could. that her boyfriend was going to ting and she creates the male aggres· be very angry if he found out that sor, dictating his presence, gestures. she'd been raped. "I don't want you words. As quickly as she creates a fan· to do lhis," she told him. When the in· tasy. a woman can dismiss il. Control lruder appeared to become angry and is the key word in a fantasy. And how forced her arms down to her :sides. different real rape is from imagined she ini.elligently «;topped talking. Shl• rape; far from having the power to didn't scream. plead or struggle. Hr. control her aggressor's thoughts and raped her once. they talked for half an behaviors. the victim of rape cannot hour lhe talked: she listened), then he even control what happens lo her own raped her again and left. As soon as body. If for men rape is about power, she was sure ho was gone, Julie culled for women iL is about powerlessness. the police and reported that. she had Thus the "nll women want it" argu· been raped. The man was never found. menl becomes another way of shield· When women like Julie nre raped by ing ourselves Crom Lhe very real st.rangers (and only one-third of possibility that rape has little to do reported rapes fall under t hP cawgory with women's desires and e\'crything of stranger rape; the rest take place to do with men'R misperceptions of between men nnd women who are ac· those desires. quaintcd wilh one another in some Yet another way we talk about rape way). they are 1.old by their families, (as l have too in this article) is in friends and counselors. if 1.hev seek strictly male-female terms. "~ten counseling. lhat 'giving in' w·a~ the can't be raped... we say, and this i!m 't smartest thing. the only thing, they true. Roughly ten percent of rapes could have done. And thnt ~ms st!n· reported in ~1as..;;achusetts Inst year siblc: if a guy twice your -;ize and (and many more went unreported) stmngth grabbed you on the street were committed by men whose \"ic· and held what he said was a knife tims were also male. "Onlv a against your back, you'd give him homosexual would rape another 1nan. your wallet without. Loo much fuss, right? Wrong. Rape is not about sex· wouldn't you? You'd be stupid Lo ual desire but about aggression; il is fight him, wouldn't you? E~pedally if unlikely that generalizations about you were female and had never been the sexunl orientations of men \\ho in a fight in your life: especially if you rape men can be made to stick. What were female and bad been taught all we do know about male rape is that your life, in subtle and not-so-subtle its victims are frequently (not always, ways. to be agreeable, acquiescent, but frequently homosexual. The Fen· passive. way Community Health Center runs What doesn't seem so sensible, the only program of its kind in Mas· though, is the fact that when one sin· sacbusetts, providing assistance to gle factor. a complicated one, rape than are women raped by has deemed it irrelevant. victims of anti-gay violence. Joyce admittedly-the relationship between strangers). As Beth Gersten, a counselor at Collier, Coordinator of the Victim victim and assailant-is added to the If Eloise had pressed charges, and the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center, Recovery Project al. FCHC, says that crime, a woman's physical reaction if the case had gone to court, it. is like says. "Rapes won't stop happening certain trends in sexual violence against rape-whether or not she ly that her behavior-her passivity until men stop raping women." Such directed against homosexuals have resisted- becomes the main focus of would have been questioned. Any a statement puts the burden of been noticed. In a typical scenario. the question of whether or not. she was reasonable woman, the defense might responsibility on male shoulders, says Collier, a gang of 3-6 males, raped. The circumstances in a "con" have claimed, any proud female would where it hasn't been and where it be ranging in age from late teens to late or "confidence" rape (a term used to have fought off her assailant.. If no longs. Such a burden means taking a twenties, will go into what is per· describe the ways in which a man physical effort. was required, then woman at her word, Uternlly: no ceived to be a gay sect.ion of a city. gains the confidence of bis victim as perhaps no rape took place. One of the doesu't mean "yes" or "push me into looking for gay men to assault. Their a means of getting access to her) can problems with this approach (the it;" no means no. The man who fails victims. who are both gay and be very similar to those in stranger resistance requirement) it is an impli· to listen to both those verbal and non· straight, will be taunted, attacked, rape: the victim is still usually many cit definition of what a reasonable and verbal cues signalling 'no' may well be then kicked, punched and possibly pounds lighter and less physically proud woman is-or is capable of. behaving in accordance with a set of raped. strong l.han her assailant.; and he may This super woman, Susan Estrich values, reinforced by our society, Unless he urgently needs medical still use force, or threats of force to writ.es in Real Rape, "is one who does which prizes male agressiveness and treatment, the man who is raped prob overcome her. Some men who rape not scare easily, one who does not feel feminine passivity, but he isn't behav· ably won't report the crime to anyone. don't even need to threaten; they vulnerable, one who is not passive, ing responsibly. And of those men who do go to hospi· practice psychological terrorism. one who fights back, not cries. The tals for emergency treatment, few will Eloise, for example, five feet tall and reasonable woman, it seems, is not a Ways we talk about rape return for counseling. " It is extreme wcighing one hundred pounds, was schoolboy 'sissy;' she is a real man." ly humiliating for a man to be raped," raped by a man she'd dated twice be If you are a woman, is this you? One of the ways we talk about rape says Collier. "Men who have been fore, on a deserted beach where they'd Another problem with the is as motivated by sexual desire. raped fear that the police and courts gone to watch the sun set; "Chuck" resistance requirement is that it fo Reactions such as "No wonder she got won't believe them. Men are supposed didn't threaten her; he didn't even cuses on the woman rather than on raped. Look at. the way she's dressed; to be able to protect themselves, speak to her, past a certain point. He the man. Her motives and responses he lost control of himself," and "She what kind of a man would let himself just went ahead and "did it." And are questioned, not bis. As we know deserved it for leading him on like get raped?" Eloise, amazed and terrified by the from watching TV docu-