Word: ascheim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disconnected house, on a disconnected morning, Anastasia comes suddenly upon a little girl (Karen Ascheim), the daughter of a married lover. There is a chilling scene. Two witches in a sun-lit room, mirror images through time. Anastasia confronts her small imp of the perverse, little Pearl in a red frock. What does she feel before that inscrutable child? Envy for times past, fear for the child's future indifference before accusation, shame? Nothing so simple. In that transcendent silence, white spheres of guilt and innocence flash and tumble, collide and fuse. Souls changes places, lose and gain whole years...
Good writing accounts for about 10% of the total acreage in issue number 19. Skip Ascheim's front-page report on proceedings of the Massachusetts Legislature's education committee is successful satire because it maintains an objectivity which most Avatar writing never achieves. Noting that few of the committeemen investigating misconduct of University of Massachusetts students could "speak English." Ascheim observes...
...cameos, Ken Tigar shines as Tigger, Leland Moss pleases the kiddies as Rabbit, and Mark Ritts takes off as Owl. But the genius lies in Charles Ascheim's sensitive, sunglassed portrayal of Eeyore. Here is a characterization of such depth, such impact, such raw power, that it defies description...
Chapman stated unmistakably that he would not. When the HDC met the following week, even Ascheim reluctantly supported a plan for a self-perpetuating committee...
Maybe in recognition of this problem, the self-perpetuating committee began to choose more non-directors. Mayer, one of the original members, and Ascheim, who came on in the Fall of '65, were replaced last Spring by Peter Jaszi and Howard Cutler, both actors involved in tech and production work...