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...leading lady desired by every man. The fellow actor who marries her knows and accepts her ethnic identity -- a remarkable thing in the Deep South of the 1880s, yet never explored in the script. Her moments, superbly acted and sung by Lonette McKee, have an emotional power and tragic heft far beyond almost anything else in the show. But she vanishes halfway through the first act, save for two fleeting glimpses later...
Every time I get back to the Broadway Garage, staffed by the nice guy whom I see all too often, I realize that I should have bought more food. I can only heft so many bags back to the Square, but the benefits to my life expectancy of making trips less frequently stare me in the face every time I see a feeble left-hand blinker making a right turn...
With only $25 in his wallet -- earnings from mowing a few lawns -- he quickly settled on a used Remington semiautomatic 12-gauge shotgun. He was pleasantly surprised by its heft as he slid it into a canvas bag and scurried back to his truck. At 16, Doug was finally a force to be reckoned with at Father Flanagan High, in his white, working-class neighborhood of Benson and on the streets of Omaha. "If you have a gun, you have power. That's just the way it is," he says. "Guns are just a part of growing up these days...
Conduct Unbecoming has the heft and urgency of a journalistic milestone. But the book's lack of thoughtful underpinning, its failure to distinguish between homophobia and the military's more practical concerns, threatens to turn it into a doorstop...
...agenda, other than re-creating some old-time TV pleasures. The town characters -- a naive telegraph operator, a good-hearted prostitute, a smoldering hunk who hangs out with a pet wolf -- are colorful in the innocent, pre-Bochco sense of the word, and the series has sweep and moral heft. (For the opening credits, the screen is even masked at the top and bottom to simulate a CinemaScope epic...