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Almost lost in the furor was the play itself, an unflaggingly witty and often moving slice of life among the young, hip and artsy in Calgary, Canada. A gay painter (Michael J. Blankenship), blocked in his work, tries to jolt himself by taking a job as a waiter. To help the young couple who own the restaurant, he induces his closest female friend, a beguilingly bitchy columnist, to tout it in print. The place thrives. So does passion between the painter and the young husband (Damian Baldet, a conservatory student giving a captivating and confidently professional performance...
Susan L. Tananbaum of Bowdoin College (British and Jewish history); Judith Thompson of Children of War, Inc. (peace studies); Amy C. Tishelman of Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School (clinical psychology); Jessica Treadway, an independent writer (fiction); Lisa Vawter of Harvard University (molecular evolution); Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship, an independent artist (visual arts) and Abby Zanger of Harvard University (French literature...
Twain said Huckleberry Finn, the young narrator of his most famous book, was based on Tom Blankenship, a poor white boy in Hannibal, Mo. But Fishkin argues that Huck's voice was in part inspired by Jimmy, a 10-year-old black servant. Twain described this boy in an 1874 article in the New York Times as "the most artless, sociable and exhaustless talker I ever came across." Added Twain: "He did not tell me a single remarkable thing, or one that was worth remembering. And yet he was himself so interested in his small marvels, and they flowed...
...truth common to most readers: they are less interested in distinctions of fact and fiction than in rousing stories and lively characters. The Prince of Tides provides plenty of both. There is the time Grandma tried out a coffin at the local funeral home and nearly frightened Ruby Blankenship to death. There is Grandpa, who can water-ski 40 miles and carries a 90-lb. cross through town every Good Friday. Conroy can be shameless in his extravagances of language and plot, yet he consistently conveys two fundamental emotions: the attachment to place and the passion for blood ties...
...districts would elect their own officers instead of accepting bosses hand-picked by Washington headquarters. He set about spending two days a week touring the coal fields, listening to miners' comments and complaints. Last week he visited the hamlet of Lake, W. Va., to call on Willie Ray Blankenship, a feeble 72-year-old former mine worker. Blankenship had applied for a union pension four years ago when he retired, but the Boyle regime denied it on a technicality. Miller handed Blankenship a check for $2,400, bringing the old miner up to date on his pension, and told...