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Williams' brilliance lies in his finely tuned understanding of a society that seeks to crush what is different, lest the shades of its own guilty past reappear to haunt its members. Impropriety is a crime punishable by death. Val is no innocent, and Caughey's nuanced performance acknowledges the complexity of the character. But he is a martyr. Sheriff Talbott and his men make for an odd band of Maenads, but after all, this is Tennessee Williams...
...Ezekiel explains that the Sodomites' sin was that they had "pride, fullness of bread and abundance of idleness" but did not "strengthen the hand of the poor and needy" -- quite apart from any "abomination" (16: 49-50). Amos addresses the rich people of Bashan, who "oppress the poor, which crush the needy," thundering that "the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fish-hooks" (4: 1-2) (which puts even "necklacing " in a new perspective...
...tell it, they literally worked themselves sick; by late September, more than 1,000 of the 11,500 workers were on sick leave. At that point, Local 599 of the United Auto Workers called them out, aiming to force GM to hire some permanent workers to relieve the overtime crush. Workers responded enthusiastically. ENOUGH MANPOWER FOR FIRST-AID CALLS, RESTROOM CALLS AND FAMILY NEEDS, demanded one picket sign. Said an assembly-line worker, a mother with four school-age children: "I never thought I'd see the day when I welcomed a strike for a few days off." GM settled...
Asked if he felt indebted to Russia for helping crush the Hungarian uprising in 1848, Austria's Prince Schwarzenberg replied, "Austria will astound the world with the magnitude of her ingratitude." So will Haiti...
...most successful ventures is Mountasia Enterprises, based in Alpharetta, Georgia. Proprietors Scott and Juli Demerau started their first park in 1986 at an abandoned skateboard center in Mobile, Alabama. Within weeks the crush of visitors forced them to hire traffic police. In six months they had branched out to two more locations. Three years later things were going so well that they decided to get married -- on the miniature golf course at one of their Georgia fun centers. Since their debut, the Demeraus have expanded their original investment of $450,000 into an amusement empire that includes 26 parks...