Word: childhoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fear, hate and exploitation are themes that haunt Harry Crews. His fiction (Car, A Feast of Snakes) is peopled by grotesque and tragic victims of the rural South. As his autobiography, A Childhood, reveals, Crews earned his vision. He is, to use his own term, a "grit," a poor white brought up on a Depression dirt farm in Georgia, fearful of landlords, Government, floods, of life itself. Maturity has brought courage, but the shudders of childhood remain. So does the gallery of odd personae who enliven his latest book of personal essays, Blood and Grits...
...once was kissed by the "huge, slobbery, slimy tongue" of Shamu the killer whale on a childhood visit to Sea World...
...affinity with childhood - irrepressible, irresponsible, zany, sulky -brings out the best and the worst in Play wright Weller. His previous drama, Moonchildren, was a balloon flight through the gravityless '60s. In Loose Ends, now at Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage, the characters are grounded in the '70s and undergo growing pains without discernibly growing...
...three-year-old son Sage wanted to see his old man on the Muppet Show, so Sylvester Stallone, 32, got himself invited, playing a gladiator vs. a Muppet lion. Besides, it was a way to live out his own childhood fantasy. "Ever since I was eight, I've wanted to be a gladiator," says the hero of Rocky. "Usually, when I have a fantasy, I make a movie. This saved me from 22 weeks of moviemaking." Probably a good thing, considering Stallone's last two films, F.I.S.T. and Paradise Alley...
...ground. In a later piece an altercation between between cello and alto-trombone ranges from melodrama to farce. Kim's parallels and parodies the actors' disjointed monologues. In one skit a piano accompanies actress Irene Worth, responding to the natural cadences of her voice as she relives a traumatic childhood experience. The culmination of this tension between the actor and instrument occurs in the last piece when the voices of violin, piano and high soprano clash in an expressionistic fury...