Word: greenwood
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Thomas Hardy lived to be 200 years old, or so it must have seemed to his literary competitors. He reached prominence in 1872 with his second novel, Under the Greenwood Tree, and was going strong half a century later. His last / book, a volume of poems titled Winter Words, appeared in 1928, shortly after his death at 87. In his introduction to Winter Words, Hardy crowed that he was the "only English poet who has brought out a new volume of his verse" at so advanced...
Peter MacDonald, former chief of the Navajo Nation, could be found on the 1974 list; now he can be found in a federal prison in Bradford, Pennsylvania, where he is serving 14 years for charges relating to bribes and kickbacks. When Harold Greenwood was chosen as a future leader in 1974, he was president of something called the Midwest Federal Savings & Loan in Minneapolis. Had we known then what we know now about S&Ls, we might have been able to guess that in 1991 he would be convicted of fraud. Molecular biologist David Baltimore was 36 when TIME selected...
...staging is masterful and Sullivan has worked hard to keep the many humorous moments from unbalancing the show. Set designer John Lee Beatty's gorgeous London house fits Sara's assimilated English life perfectly--it looks like she ordered it straight from Laura Ashley, brocade pillows and all. Jane Greenwood has a similar sure touch with the costuming; everything from Pfeni's princess gown to Gorgeous' running outfit is perfect. The lighting by Pat Collins is occassionally too dramatic (we don't really need a totally dark stage with a single spot on Sara to know when she's thinking...
...Indian born in Uganda but forced to leave during Idi Amin's expulsion of Asians in 1972, falls in love with Demetrius (Denzel Washington), a African American who owns his own carpet cleaning business, they test the "Third World" kinship cultivated between the black and Indian communities of Greenwood, Mississippi. And it fails--no one supports the lovers' right to be together...
...Middle East. 472 Mass Ave., Cambridge. 497-0576. Downstairs: Adult children of Heterosexuals on Thursday, oct. 28. Dread Zeppelin with Tortelvis and Amongus on Friday, Oct. 29. Alice Donut on Saturday, Oct. 30. Hair and Skin Trading Company on Sunday, Oct. 31. Upstairs: Apollo Landing on October. 28. Sarah Greenwood on Oct. 30. Halloween Party and festivities with Mudwimmin...