Word: drawning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...truth. Who can believe a family in which the father is an utterly heartless tyrant, artfully manipulated by his sinister Southern belle of a daughter but so resented by his sons that one of them ends up robbing him at gunpoint? This is not to say that Hellman has drawn the dialogue verbatim from her own family dinner table or that each incident in the plot can be documented. But if you're familiar with Hellman's own background through her autobiographical writing--An Unfinished Woman and Pentimento--you may see the story in a slightly different light...
...play as a kind of roman a clef. The weak, frightened character who appears both as the mother of the Hubbard family. Lavinia, and as a neighbor named Birdie Bag try, a young flower wilting on the broken vine of old Southern aristocracy, seems to be drawn from Hellman's own mother, the former Julia Newhouse. Like Living, whose one fixed idea throughout the play is to embark on her "mission" to teach "the little colored children." Julia constantly took refuge in religion, mouthing the words to prayers or ducking into the nearest church of whatever denomination, despite the fact...
...agreement being hammered out last week would allow Israeli troops to remain in brigade strength on the eastern rim of the passes; thus both sides could argue that their conditions had been met. At issue was where on the slopes of the passes the Solomonic lines should be drawn between the Israeli brigades and the U.N. forces that would hold the passes as a demilitarized zone...
EUGENE ONEGIN. Drawn from Pushkin by the composer and his librettist friend Konstantin Shilovsky, this is an exquisitely melancholy romance about a girl (Tatiana) who grows up and a cad (Onegin) who does not. The Bolshoi production dates from 1944, and the company treats it with veneration...
Many experts, like Senior Editor George Church, are drawn to their disciplines irresistibly by the forces of supply and demand. "The reason I began reporting business," Church admits, "was that I heard the Wall Street Journal was hiring people with no experience." Thus in 1954, Church began his apprenticeship on the Journal, reporting on the food and textile industries. "I found myself far more fascinated with business than I had expected," he recalls. "It requires the type of mind that enjoys puzzles-the more pieces, the better." Since joining TIME in 1969, Church has unraveled economic enigmas in dozens...