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...Five, when the storm finally skulked westward and hammered into Mississippi, it was scarcely a subject for humor. Its pounding, 125-m.p.h. winds and satellite tornadoes devastated business districts and residential neighborhoods alike in Biloxi, Gulfport and Pascagoula. Approximately 1,400 commercial structures were damaged, along with at least 3,790 dwellings, leaving hundreds of people homeless and causing insured private-property losses of more than $350 million in Mississippi alone. During its wild meanderings, Hurricane Elena left behind an additional $13.8 million of insured private-property damages in Louisiana, $100.3 million in Alabama and $46.8 million in Florida...
...those who loved the character, Broderick's endearingly klutzy impersonation, Gene Saks' straightforward staging and the humanity of the author's reminiscence, Simon last week brought them back in the second Broadway installment of a planned autobiographical trilogy. Biloxi Blues sends Eugene to Mississippi for basic training in 1943. He faces authority and danger, anti-Semitism and assimilation. He methodically loses his virginity with a prostitute (Randall Edwards), less for pleasure than as a rite of passage, then rediscovers his innocence in the chaste embrace of a Catholic schoolgirl. He confronts the chasm between his diary jottings and literature...
...contrast to the confident, even cocky kid of Brighton Beach, the Eugene of Biloxi Blues knows how little he knows. He is aware enough of the larger world to realize how many perils, including the war, may bar his path to glory. And through the nudging of his wise and principled friend Arnold Epstein (played with ferocious wit by Barry Miller), Eugene begins to grasp that his charm and amiability may mask the moral flaw of self-absorption. When Arnold stingingly accuses Eugene of being "a witness," devoid of passion and commitment, the insight may make an audience reconsider...
...stopover cannot encompass the complex, cumulative relationships of a family. Still, it stands with the most telling statements of the World War II generation, or any generation that loses many of its young in battle, about how much of life is luck. After a fall and winter of disappointment, Biloxi Blues ranks as the best new American play of the Broadway season...
...where three-year-old males are blithely ignorant of sexual affairs, a filly is eligible to "horse" at any time, to become distracted by spring. Whatever Althea's excuse, she finished 19th. The lady rider, Patti Cooksey, brought So Vague home a deserving eleventh, just ahead of Biloxi Indian, trained and owned by Dianne Carpenter. One woman in the winner's circle was a certainty though. As she proudly pointed out, Governor Martha Layne Collins was the first of her sex to dispense the trophy...