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Sexism and its cultural and tradition-linked contradictions emerge in highly charged exchanges between an intense, riveting Arthur (Jeffrey Rubin) and Ala (Diana Silver). Arthur argues for a practical marriage based on "pleasure and profit" while hypocritically undermining his criticism of loose mores with a blunt display of sexual aggression...
...Ala agrees to marry Arthur, and Stomil (effectively portrayed by Tom Champion) also finds his orchestrated chaos turned to order by his son. Arthur finally convinces his father to assert his masculinity in a conventional, gun-toting way, but soon brute force supplants indoctrination in the son's effort to use "tradition" as the key to the future. Once the family agrees to the traditional marriage and accepts "order," Arthur begins to seek other answers; from "order" he shifts to "death," and then to "power...
Gulf Shores, Ala...
After he graduated, Stark wrote news, poetry and fiction for several magazines, was national correspondent in Cleveland for the Wall Street Journal and New England correspondent for The Boston Globe. A former resident of Montgomery, Ala.. he was familiar with the then-governor of Georgia and knew some members of Carter's staff. He covered Carter for a week for the Globe early in 1975, and soon joined his campaign full time...
Over 100 supporters of Governor George Wallace (D-Ala.) gathered at his headquarters on State St. to exult at his strong showing in the Bay State, more than ten-percentage points more than he received in the 1972 primary...