Word: carvers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...smallest performances are persuasive, and one is exceptional: as the artist's devoted wife, a woman so blind to her husband's sins that she might easily seem pathetic, Martha Henry radiates strength, grace and throbbing-voiced appeal. In Dilemma's other exacting role, Brent Carver finds the scapegrace charm and wit of the dying young artist but just misses the offhand incandescence that would fit the repeated description of him as a genius. Phillips has acted the part himself, to acclaim, and knows that the character's simultaneous power to seduce and appall an audience...
...minister and a Roman Catholic priest at the Huntsville, Texas, prison known as The Walls. At 6:30 p.m. he was served a final meal; he had chosen an unusually mundane one of hamburger with mustard, French fries, iced tea, water, and nothing else. His court-appointed attorney, Charles Carver, arrived, and they talked of his legal prospects. But both knew there was little hope. The day before, the U.S. Supreme Court had turned down his request for a stay. The time for his execution neared. "He was prepared," recalls Carver...
...Raymond Carver ∙ Fools of Fortune...
FICTION: The Cannibal Galaxy, Cynthia Ozick -Cathedral, Raymond Carver -Franz Kafka...
Cynthia Ozick •Cathedral, Raymond Carver •Franz Kafka...