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Some men say they hope to use their new skills to get jobs as veterinarians' assistants or as hot-walkers and groomers at racetracks when they get out of prison. Veterinarian Ron Zaidlicz, founder of the National Organization for Wild American Horses, teaches the inmates how to groom and care for the horses. In 1985 Zaidlicz and other NOWAH members rode mustangs from Colorado to Washington to lobby for better protection of the wild horses. "I was asked why I cared about horses when people were homeless and in so much trouble." Zaidlicz gestured toward a knot of inmates intently...
Meanwhile, Deng shrewdly continued to groom his other protege, Premier Zhao Ziyang, who last January took on the discredited Hu's responsibilities as party General Secretary. At first, Zhao's official speeches outlined a delicate balance of power, with the conservatives dominating the political sphere and the reformists managing to keep control of the economy. With tacit encouragement from Deng, however, Zhao soon grew bolder. In April he faced down a conservative decision to bar a Chinese movie from overseas distribution. In late May the Premier denounced the conservatives' "ossified thinking," which he said endangered the livelihood of the people...
When Dorothy Parker remarried her ex-husband Alan Campbell in 1950, she looked around during the reception and said, "People who haven't talked to each other in years are on speaking terms again today, including the bride and groom." A corrosive reviewer, Parker once slated a hapless author as a "writer for the ages. For the ages of four to eight." She could be equally cruel to her nearest and dearest. When Alexander Woollcott, a fellow jouster at the Algonquin Round Table, recalled an afternoon of book signing with the smug rhetorical question "What is so rare...
...gradually becomes apparent a that at the Bride and Leonardo still have some affection for each other. She is the daughter of woman who did not love her husband. To make things more complicated, Leonardo is a member of the Felix family, which has murdered the Groom's father and brother. Heredity, the agent of fate, determines from the very first scene the story's tragic outcome...
...other characters are all commentators on the tragedy. Each member of the triangle has a family that serves as a chorus. The Groom has a Mother (Rebecca Clark), who sees even in a harvesting knife a reminder of the deaths of her husband and elder of son, and the likelihood of a similar fate for her remaining son. Leonardo's Wife and his Mother-in-Law (Ashby Semple) sense Leonardo's increasing distance. The Bride has a Father(Daniel Hurewitz) and a Servant (Lisa Peers), who notices her strange reluctance as the wedding approaches...