Word: glenda
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mother told of a horrific crime -- the kidnaping, rape and abuse of a black 15-year-old by six white men, one wearing a badge. Last week, after six months of fitful investigations, a judge finally ordered someone to jail -- not a suspect, but the girl's mother Glenda Brawley...
...that, the case lurched from the unusual into the bizarre. On the advice of lawyers, Tawana, now 16, and her mother Glenda, 33, have refused to help investigators. Through advisers, they charged that local authorities with racist motives were protecting the guilty. They demanded an outside investigation. When Governor Mario Cuomo obliged, appointing Attorney General Robert Abrams as special prosecutor, the Brawleys still refused to cooperate. Last week, after Glenda Brawley defied a subpoena to appear before a grand jury in Poughkeepsie, Judge Angelo Ingrassia fined her $250 and sentenced her to 30 days for contempt. The confrontation then revved...
...suggest an intriguing sexual ambivalence: Christopher Plummer's feline grace vs. Glenda Jackson's vulpine ferocity, his moody introspection vs. her forthright speech and action. Alas, what sounds like explosive chemistry proves inert. The missing catalyst is a directorial idea of what the play is about, a point of view. From the opening declamatory rant of a wounded soldier to the final hortatory hollowness of the youth who supplants Macbeth, volume substitutes for meaning. This fish stinks from the head: Plummer copes with the poetry of "tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow" by denaturing it in monotone; Jackson distracts attention from...
...Alex (Glenda Walker) lends an Oriental flavor to the play with her talk of the mythical land of Kinkaja, where monkeys, sacred to some natives but delectable to others, threaten the stability of His Majesty's Government. Walker's performance is natural and unaffected. Unfortunately, it is also inept at times. But at least she remembers her lines, which is more than Schellenberg and Robinson...
...Glenda C. Flueck...