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...TYPICAL DAY in Hazelhurst, Mississippi, life to an outsider would seem pretty uneventful. There's the Junior League brunch to attend if you're deemed part of the "in" crowd, and possibly a get-together with the neighbors down he block. All in all though, things aren't too lively, and residents often become defensive about "big city life." Hazelhurst comparatively seems pretty dull. Yet Hazelhurst, Mississippi, like Faulkner's Yacknapatapha County and the backwoods settings of Eudora Welty's short stories, has a character and quality uniquely its own. And although its citizens and its history give the facade...
...locale is Hazelhurst, Miss., and the time is "five years after Hurricane Camille," Playwright Henley's little hint that this clan is disaster-prone. Lenny MaGrath (Lizbeth Mackay), the eldest sister, is facing her 30th birthday with "a shrunken ovary" and no gentlemen callers in sight. She is plain of face, finicky in manner and gnawed by self-doubt. She had a heartfelt romance once but skittered away from it in fear and put her emotions in a deep freeze. The kind of event that nails her hysterically to her sun-drenched kitchen wall and illustrates Henley...
...dimension of humanity that redeems the occasional lapse into cliches and arch frivolity. It is interesting to speculate about whether Crimes of the Heart would seem so antic in spirit if its lines were delivered in the brisk, flinty inflections of Bangor, Me., instead of the languorous resonances of Hazelhurst, Miss. But that is idle speculation, since Hazelhurst is so beguiling...
Hustled Out. Indian journalists faced jail if they did not conform to the guidelines, but foreign correspondents, facing only expulsion, resisted. Three Western reporters, Peter Hazelhurst, 39, Tokyo-based Asian correspondent for the London Times; Peter Gill, 31, the London Daily Telegraph's man in Tehran; and Loren Jenkins, 36, Newsweek's Hong Kong bureau chief, refused to pledge submission and were hustled out of New Delhi at dawn Tuesday on a Beirut-bound Pan Am flight. The New York Times, TIME, the British Broadcasting Corp. and CBS-TV also turned down the pledge. Said Richard Salant, president...
...that by the time they all get together at Katie's table, each man's private world has been described both by himself and through the eyes of others. Suddenly, there bursts into this assembly of unheroic mortals a strange instrument of Christian betterment-the Earl of Hazelhurst, drunk as a lord, and enraged with his mother to the point of suicide for having robbed him of the moral support of a saintly young friend. Yelling and storming, the earl hurls himself through the window and hangs teetering, "cradled between the metal stanchions of an awning...