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There are, of course, benefits to winning even a diluted million. Says James A. Easter, 32, of Chicago, who hit his jackpot in November 1974: "I've been meeting girls like crazy. I always thought women took time and money. Lately I've had both." Some winners quit their jobs, partly because their newly inflated tax bracket makes working literally less worth their while. Travel becomes affordable and a way to kill time. Gary and Janet Beaton of Boxford, Mass., visited warmer climes, such as Acapulco and Bermuda, then spent the summer cruising in their new boat...
Nora, however, cannot lock out the crescendo of revolution in the streets of Dublin outside her window, an uprising that would culminate in the Easter revolution of 1916. At the end of the play, having lost her husband and child to the violence of the revolt she was trying to shut out, Nora escapes the madhouse that Dublin has become by refusing to acknowledge it, by creating a fantasy world in which she imagines herself walking with her Jack in the country...
...Casey sees the Plough and Stars (the flag of the IRA) from the window of a Dublin flat, and through women's eyes. This view of the Easter Revolution was cynical enough to cause riots when it first was staged. In O'Casey's portrayal, the Irishmen in the Citizen Army died shitting with fear; their wives went mad trying to keep them safe at home. The only heroes in The Plough and Stars are those who neither fight nor spout rhetoric: Fluther Good, the working man whose honest dignity defies the British to do their worst, though...
...studios; next year his third complete recording of Beethoven's symphonies will be released. Then there are the hours spent in film labs working on prints or video tapes of his concert and operatic productions. When he is not filming operas, he is conducting them at the Salzburg Easter Music Festival...
...such a bore" Alfred said yesterday of his recovery from a heart attack. While at home, he will work on a short play he is writing called "Easter Sunday...