Word: beacons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thin. They even resent seeing their good buddies shoved out of old time slots. This year the ludicrous family viewing hour forced unprecedented tinkering with new shows and much rescheduling. CBS and NBC compounded this upset with lineups filled with new programs that turned out to be heavy losers. Beacon Hill has already been leveled on Tuesday, and Switch! and Joe and Sons seem destined to go. The story is the same on Thursday at NBC. The Montefuscos and Fay were dispatched with unseemly haste; Ellery Queen and Medical Story will probably follow...
...Concord Art Gallery at 82 Charles St. on Beacon Hill is showing the works of a man named John Ulbricht and his wife, Angela Von Neuman. Ulbricht has the distinction of being President Ford's portrait artist. I remember hearing that Betty Ford's portrait was sent back by the White House curator for being disproportionally larger than those of other first ladies...
White's traditional support came from the liberal communities of Back Bay and Beacon Hill, the black community off Roxbury, and from East Boston, while Timility showed strength in the anti-busing neighborhoods of South Boston, Hyde Park and Dorchester...
...never bothered with college). Violet Lang's family passed their desperate faithfulness to Boston on to her--the city and the decaying four-story brownstone they live in were the only reminders of their genteel past. In line with the family's tradition, she flirted with high society on Beacon Hill and avoided steady jobs. She was also a writer and an actress, which prompted her to associate with members of the academic set in Cambridge--who were trying pretty hard to show that they knew how to encourage and appreciate unstructured yet creative minds. But Lang never had much...
...presence as Wenceslas, the schoolmaster whose ward Hasty tries unsuccessfully to seduce, almost revives the play near the beginning of the second act, though eventually he too gets bogged down in the inanity of the dialogue. First congratulating the castrated Hasty ("A deed like this can make you a beacon of the school system," he says) and then scornfully branding him a "capon," Weinstein does manage to infuse the play with whatever sense of menace it finally conveys. Emily Apter is also fine in the stereotypical part of the teasing ingenue, and Lorenzo Mariano is sufficiently otherworldly as Squint...