Word: homesteads
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...group of unemployed migrant workers gathered last Friday morning on a field at a makeshift camp in Homestead, Florida. These laborers, handy with lumber and leather and cowhide, were not only looking for work but were also looking very familiar. One man, who bore a remarkable resemblance to former National League Rookie of the Year Chris Sabo, said, "Hopefully, I'll just be here for one day, but who knows in this situation? I've always been optimistic, but I'll just have to wait and see." Actually, it really was Chris Sabo. And former World Series mvp Dave Stewart...
This spring training camp, organized by the Players Association for its unemployed members, is perhaps the best symbol of the bizarre and distressed nature of the national pastime. The walls of the stadium in Homestead were salmon, the seats turquoise and the mood blue. "It feels strange, to say the least," said Velarde. The players were there to get in shape and audition for jobs, but there was only one, count him, one scout there last Friday...
...perfect scapegoat for someone looking for a good story like Ms. Carrier. But as the prosecutors concluded, "while it would be convenient and perhaps publicly soothing to blame Lennar for the destruction wrought by Hurricane Andrew at the properties investigated, it would not be fair or accurate." Not even Homestead Air Force Base could withstand the record 120-mile-an-hour winds of the unprecedented hurricane, and Florida Power and Light's concrete utility poles, built to resist 165-mile-an-hour winds, snapped like toothpicks...
...violent, deceitful and cruel. Firearms or knives are used in seven of the plays. The other two practice violence of the soul -- a bankruptcy "trial" that turns a man into a serf on land he owned, and a coal-mining contract, foisted on an illiterate, that turns his homestead into a moonscape for a fee of a dollar an acre. Although the plays trace the fortunes of seven generations of three intertwined families, there is not one unalloyed hero and only one heroine, the daughter of the coal-mining victim, who becomes a fearless union organizer...
...star presence is Stacy Keach, who plays four members of the Rowen family, from a ruthless homesteader before the Revolution to an alcoholic official of a withered union in the Nixon era. The first Rowen is the overarching presence, a character of macho force, demonic glee and utmost energy -- so awe-inspiring that his battered son says the only way he could be killed is if a mountain fell on him. The last Rowen is undone by doubt, destroyed by the conscience his forebear so happily lacked. In between Keach plays a sharecropper who plots vengeance on his landlord...