Word: electras
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...jail." After a two-year stint as an airplane mechanic, he landed at the University of Louisville. He drifted in and out of courses in business administration, anthropology and English. Introduced to drama when he read Eugene O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, Oates tried a student theater group. "After that, I didn't care about much else. I discovered that acting gave me an identity...
...Chartres. In Persona he is faced by the self-defeat of such a hope in a world swayed by countervailing tensions each of which claims ascendance and leaves little solace or purpose to the individual. Bergman's actress-heroine is not able to portray the theatrical tragedy of Electra while horrifying war is waged in a country far distant from neutralist Sweden. Alma turns on her TV set, and the immolation of a Buddhist monk produces her own agony...
...arrogance until he receives his terrible rebuke. Martha Henry's Antigone is a female javelin seeking death and wielding it. The myth may say that Prometheus stole fire and gave it to men. Actually, he gave it to women like Antigone and her formidable sisters, Medea and Electra and Helen...
...start Electra-Bar, a human assistant taps the right combination of keys on a cash-register-like machine. Drawing from one or more of eleven bottles, the machine can mix and pour 36 different drinks. It will also dispense straight shots. Electra-Bar is designed to be both quicker and more precise than a human barman. But the major inducement for spending $9,960 to buy the machine is that it enables a bar owner to keep an accurate eye on his profits. In a traditional saloon, dishonest or sloppy bartenders can cut heavily into the day's take...
...Electra-Bar is still not as versatile as its human counterpart. Eccentrics who ask for grasshoppers (creme de cacao, green creme de menthe and heavy cream) or the like still must have drinks made by hand. Also, vegetation for martinis must be inserted by the bartender. But tipplers who have sampled Electra's concoctions report they are remarkably uniform in taste, and generally excellent too. The next step, obviously, is a machine that will listen to the barfly's problems and make an appropriately sympathetic reply...