Word: digging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Evidence so far is thin. The police did dig up a large cache of explosives--sticks of TNT, detonators and a silencer--buried under a sandbox in a kindergarten run at home by the Amirs' mother (who has tearfully disowned her son Yigal). But none of it was used in the assassination of Rabin, which seemed to be carried out in a haphazard rather than a well-planned fashion. Police have indicated they intend to charge Yigal Amir and one other man with murder; the others could be charged with helping to plan the assassination or knowing about...
Told in a series of flashbacks, the main action of the play takes place on an archaeological dig a year before, the slides of which Dr. August Howe (Robert Rogers) examines in the first scene. Howe spent the summer with two other archaeologists--Howe's wife Dr. Cynthia Howe (Anna C. Lewis) and his friend Dr. Dan Loggins (Nick Stoller). Dan has brought along his wife, Dr. Jean Loggins (Holly Mapes), ecstatic after recently discovering her pregnancy...
...second act, the action picks up. All the quiet tensions that had been unspoken begin to scream for attention. Secrets that August had been keeping about the mound and the next summer's dig are revealed much to the changrin of the rest of the characters. Chad learns about Jean's pregnancy, and subsequently drifts into insanity, screaming about how he and Cynthia have been sleeping together. The play concludes with Jean sobbing over Chad's murder of her husband and his own subsequent suicide. August is left sadly looking at his slides and the remnants of six shattered lives...
...risk of their own lives? Prochnau blames Washington and Saigon for an unworkable strategy against the Viet Cong and for a refusal to listen to journalists who discovered it wasn't working. The more the officials tried to bamboozle or stonewall reporters, the more they drove them to dig for themselves and to unearth a disaster in the making...
...story the pair tracked down sources on three continents and combed through reams of corporate documents and court records. Such thoroughness is a Gurwin specialty. "Working with Larry on a story is like being part of an archaeological dig," says TIME chief of correspondents Joelle Attinger. "He painstakingly peels away the layers until the full tale is revealed...