Word: alaska
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...passed. In the Senate cloakroom, Majority Leader Howard Baker was trying to put together enough votes for a continuing resolution that would keep programs funded through the fiscal year. Michigan Democrat Carl Levin, who objected to proposed increases for defense spending, threatened to filibuster. Ted Stevens of Alaska, the Republican whip, began shouting at Levin. When Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn tried to intercede, Stevens turned his wrath on him. The mild-mannered Nunn stalked away...
...play treats the struggle between civilization and primitivism; more specifically, between an Ivy League-educated Hollywood screenwriter and his brother, a near-illiterate renegade who has just emerged from five months of solitary foraging in the Mojave Desert. Thrown together in their mother's house--she is vacationing in Alaska and her well-behaved son is baby-sitting her plants--the do-good and the no-good brothers clash, switch roles, and clash again...
...represent a warped flip side of the American dream. Their father, who remains offstage, is a drunkard who once put his false teeth in a doggie bag filled with chow mein, and then left the bag in a bar along a Mexican highway. Their mother, who returns from Alaska in the final scene, is perfectly tacky, uncomprehending, and well-meaning. She appears terribly excited because she read in a newspaper that Picasso is visiting the local museum. She refuses to believe Austin's claim that Picasso has been dead for years and instead tells Lee, who has never heard...
writing about Alaska...
...imprisoned not by the street but by her aversion to her sole option--going down to the street and speaking the street language of the men she will find there. The lines she repeats--"thinks of going down into the street"--are the antithesis of her images of Alaska, the source of "williwas wind," volcanoes, spruces, birds, and the Bering...