Word: electras
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Hyman Horwitz left a Boston basketball game one night in 1970, he found only a parking space where his shiny 1969 Buick Electra had been. Horwitz was so upset, that in mourning his becoming Electra, he could not bring him self to buy a replacement. A year later, he died without a car in the world...
...Electra completes this portion of the cycle. It begins as a long threnody by Electra (Lynn Dearth). Stoking a cauldron of hatred toward her mother Clytemnestra, Dearth is a cauldron herself; if she continues at this level of passion, she cannot fail to be a top actress of this decade...
...Electra's brother Orestes (Gwilym) comes home as a stranger. After the famed "recognition" scene, Electra embraces him with incestuous ardor. Modern audiences can easily comprehend Freud's comment that he had merely systematized what the Greek poets had known all along: the slaying of the parent remains a ritual whose power to chill has lost nothing in 2,500 years...