Word: icebox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...rope after their engine had failed. A berth was offered them aft of an American destroyer. Michel said, "It's your country, Janis. Go talk to them." Whatever Janis did, it succeeded. "For the next week we had five sailors working on our engine. They filled our icebox with steak and ice cream. And all around us was this harbor of poverty. It was horrible, and it was heaven. I'll never forget...
...remember what he was supposed to say, he would pat his stomach, which was his way of signaling the other actors to say something--anything. Once he even forgot he was supposed to be onstage, leaving Carney all by himself for something like three minutes. Carney went to the icebox--it was an icebox, not a refrigerator --and, with ruffles and flourishes, pulled out an orange and peeled it. The audience roared...
...three Reagans lunched in the dining room, the prairie sun making bright squares on the floor through the white scrim curtains, memories tumbling forth about raising rabbits, collecting birds' eggs and filling the icebox and the wood stove...
...Edna will have to leave. Edna realizes that this news will send Wes back to booze and her away from him: "Wes got up and pulled the drapes and the ocean was gone just like that. I went in to start supper. We still had some fish in the icebox. There wasn't much else. We'll clean it up tonight, I thought, and that will...
Several of the stories in The Baby in the Icebox, like the title story, "Dead Man," and the deceptively titled "Pastorale" also have themes dealing with murder. Frighteningly, in each case murder seems to happen naturally, as though it were somehow an acceptable outlet for violent emotions. Only after committing the act itself do the characters begin to feel remorse. Ironically, Cain never seems to care much about the victim and rarely describes a victim's character. When he does, the victim usually comes across as some slovenly, mean person who was better off dead. In each case, the notion...