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Maggie, of course, is a focal point for one of Williams' perfervid, evocative (if dramatically a bit clumsy) explorations of Southern familial passions. Her husband Brick has taken to the bottle and thrown her out of bed in despondency over the death of his best friend and the specter of his own homosexuality. Their marital crisis reaches a boil at the birthday party...
...Brick's father, "Big Daddy" Pollitt, who is unaware that he is dying of cancer. The illness has drawn his other son, Cooper, and daughter-in-law to the family mansion to try to win first place in line for his estate-"Twenty-eight thousand acres," as Big Daddy boasts, "of the richest land outside of the Valley Nile...
...terrific congestion. She hurried into the clear under a delightful painter's hat with the bill brushed back. About three miles out, Benoit ran away completely and was astonished when no one kept up. "I didn't complain," she said. "I just sort of followed the yellow brick road...
...house on a residential street six miles from the Los Angeles Coliseum. The house is a haven where Lewis can be himself, by himself. If he wants to, as he did one day last week, he can simply lounge around all morning in his blue cotton nightshirt on the brick patio overlooking a small, oval swimming pool. His mother, an excellent cook, prepares meals for everyone. By noon of one busy morning, she already had dinner made: a variation on shepherd's pie with layers of potatoes, red onions and scallions, green peas and sautéed turkey, topped...
...prodigal of sons ever to be approved for the Christian ministry. On Oct. 30,1969, near Glasgow, Nelson got into a row with his mother over a girlfriend and, in a fit of rage, began bludgeoning her with a truncheon. When it broke, he went after her with a brick. Nelson dragged her body out to the garage, changed his bloody clothing, washed up and drove into the city, but later that night turned himself...