Word: gammon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...increase comes from an unrestricted bequest from the Landon H. Gammon Fund and is expected to increase financial aid for foreign students about $100,000 per year...
Dean of the Law School Robert C. Clark hailed the program and its donors, the Gammon family...
...Gammon Fund was named by Katherine C. Gammon in honor of her husband, who graduated from the LL.B. program...
...Shepard's dramas of blasted American lives, the terror never stays so politely out of sight--it's usually smacking you in the face. Buried Child, first produced in 1978, opens with a marital conversation conducted across a chasm. Dodge, a foghorn-voiced geezer (a hilarious James Gammon), sits nearly immobile on a couch, exchanging shouts with his wife (Lois Smith), who spends most of the first act offstage. One grown son (Terry Kinney) shuffles in and out with armfuls of corn; another (Leo Burmester) stomps around on a false leg and terrorizes his father by snipping his hair while...
...talented cast (including Beverly D'Angelo as the woman who left Vinnie for Carter and James Gammon as the disgraced racing official) huffs and puffs but can't blow any life into these windy three hours. Shepard's wordplay lacks the wit and profane poetry of more accomplished practitioners like David Mamet. Simpatico is both coy and lazy: it invites the audience to fill in the gaps, to look for meanings. No thanks...