Word: baxley
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Alabama, the chaotic three-way race for governor calmed a bit with Attorney General Charlie Graddick's decision to give up his faltering write-in campaign, leaving the field to fellow Democrat Bill Baxley and Republican Guy Hunt...
...term Republican Jeremiah Denton. Alabama was also the stage for another historic primary, this one for the office occupied for 16 years by Governor George Wallace, who announced in April that he had "climbed my last political mountain." Having failed to win a majority, Wallace's Lieutenant Governor Bill Baxley, who was endorsed by blacks, teachers and labor unions, now faces a runoff later this month against his runner-up, conservative Attorney General Charles Graddick, who has the backing of businessmen and the Ku Klux Klan...
...times, it seems that Bryant can lave the same effect on the whole state of Alabama. Governor Fob James, who is far less famous than Bryant in the state, praises him as being "larger than life." Bill Baxley, Alabama's former attorney general, calls Bryant "the No. 1 asset of the state." He is certainly treated as though he were: two uniformed state policemen act as bodyguards and chauffeurs on game days. Bryant has achieved a pop-hero status. His face appears on T shirts and bumper stickers, and there are even postcards showing him strolling on water...
Past Tense is a chameleon play that depends very much on the coloration added by the principals. Those who saw George Grizzard and Barbara Baxley perform the drama in its U.S. premiere at the Hartford Stage Company in 1977, under the direction of Paul Weidner, will be hard put to it to recognize the version that skitters across the stage of Manhattan's Circle in the Square...
Grizzard's Ralph was an eternal Lit le Boy Blue but capable of last-ditch courage; Luckinbill is simply an animated puppet dangling jerkily from unseen strings. Baxley's Emily was managerial yet vulnerable; Feldon is as crisp as a fresh ice cube and just about as cool whenever she melts. Under Weidner, pauses became gravamens of a lost chord of happiness. Theodore Mann directs Past Tense as if he were presiding over a domestic roller derby. It is a valuable reminder that the play you see is not always the one the au thor actually wrote...