Word: caskets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...church." As a child he worshiped his mother and despised his father; naturally his middle-aged son (Gene Hackman) feels the same way. The two clash openly-and obviously-when Gene's garden-club-variety mother dies. Sensitive son mourns while boorish father frets over casket prices and answers sympathy notes with the oft-told tale of his fiscal success in the brass business. Soon the daughter (Estelle Parsons), banished to Chicago for marrying a Jew, arrives for the funeral and winds up giving Gene a lecture on castrating fathers. After much simplistic agonizing, Gene finally delivers the ritual...
...through eleven years among this dreadful crew until his father, dying of cancer, announces that he will not mend his 35-year rift with Holy Mother Church and, far more shocking, intends to be cremated. The scandalized Corrigans mount a frenzied campaign to scoop old Principato into a sanctified casket-but only manage to ruin his son's life...
...director who sees the countinghouse at the center of the play cannot take seriously Portia's enchanted realm of Belmont, with its fairy-tale plot and flowery sentiments. Miller treats it as either hypocritical or irrelevant. He turns the casket scenes into occasions for extravaganzas of comic stage business. In the famous lyric dialogue between Lorenzo and Jessica ("In such a night as this . . ."), he makes Lorenzo a pipe-puffing bore and has Jessica fall asleep. Thus he undercuts the romantic element of the play, the key to what Shaw called the work's "humanity and poetry...
...student, dressed as Cleaveland, rowed up, declared: "This place is too dirty to build a colony," and double-timed back down the river to the almost equally scabrous Lake Erie. In Letcher County, Ky., part of the most ravaged section of Appalachia, 1,200 students buried a trash-filled casket. A young Denver group called CARP (Citizens Concerned About Radiation Pollution) gave the Colorado Environmental Rapist of the Year Award to the Atomic Energy Commission...
...certain of the way, then you are the prisoner of the system. You have lost any desire for your own freedom and creativity. You are dead and buried. You can no longer hold out a hand to another man, for you are dead and buried in your private casket...