Word: jabing
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Trapped in a destructive marriage to the sadistic, decrepit Jabe Torrence (Sam Baum), she spends sleepless nights "coupled with death." Pledged to live together in sickness and mutual hate, they refuse to lie to one another, yet they refuse to acknowledge the truth...
...play's climax, Jabe, in a jealous rage, tries to kill Val and inadvertently shoots his wife. Making what Flannery O'Connor calls "a good case for distortion," the scene risks appearing ridiculously melodramatic to modern viewers...
...youth, and he is at his best when writing about anachronisms, people who have been left behind in the shuffle of progress. There is, for example, his father, a diehard independent trucker; Bob Suffridge, the former all-American halfback for Tennessee who is now an alcoholic in Knoxville; Jabe Thomas, one of the only major-circuit stock car racers who does not having backing from Detroit; and a series of once-promising baseball players who never made it. Failures and dying breeds are Hemphill's stock-in-trade, but it never seems as if he's writing the same piece...
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