Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...withdrawn Detroit teenager, Moriarty was hooked by a high school production of Arsenic and Old Lace. "My whole identity became 'an actor,' "he says."It was a 24-hour obsession...
...returned from his year in London with his confidence and his ambition in tatters. But after six months of selling tires back in Detroit, Moriarty auditioned successfully at the Guthrie Theater. At first he was discomfited by the Guthrie's classically English style of acting. "I didn't see the value in being able to say nine lines on one breath," he says. "What was missing is what American actors are known for: interior work, subtext work." But with the advent of Director Mel Shapiro, Moriarty found a mentor whose approach to acting meshed with...
...manufacturer of this mechanical wizard, Detroit's Jervis B. Webb Co., has had long experience making such automatons. One device, designed for carting material around trade shows and conventions, actually says "Pardon me" (in a recorded male voice). Webb's most sophisticated installation is at Detroit's 650-bed Harper-Webber Hospital. There, 70 automated, self-propelled carts recently began doing everything from delivering meals and surgical equipment to carrying off dirty linens and wastes. To prevent the spread of germs from one area of the hospital to another, the carts are programmed to return directly...
What the Wine-Sellers Buy, which opened in Manhattan last week, is essentially a sentimental domestic morality play of wayward youth, a play that is a dramatic refugee from the 1950s. EXcept that here the characters are black and the setting is the Detroit ghetto. The bad influence arrives in the form of Rico, a wonderfully reptilian pimp who means to apprentice Steve to his trade by having the lad peddle Mae in the streets. Will Steve choose the life of vice? Will he break his old mother's heart, not to mention...
December 9 was a hard sunny day in Detroit, the sort of day that is neither fall nor winter but all crispness and cutting surface glare, when the cars seem to float across the vision and the long cold winter looks like it will never come. A young black man emptied two pistols through the window of a house on Grand River killing both his mother and his sister. A man in a Santa Claus outfit was robbed and beaten in the alley behind downtown Hudson's by a gang of four teenage boys. A fifty-year-old man crashed...