Word: kendale
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last years Merrick became the mini-pet of the haut monde. The Princess of Wales visited him, the Prince of Wales sent him venison, and an actress, Mrs. Kendal, was solicitously tender. At the point in the play where she reaches out to take Merrick's hideously gnarled right hand in hers, the emotionally charged impact equals the scene in The Miracle Worker where Helen Keller first comprehends the sign for water. Longing to sleep "like other people," Merrick, who could only achieve rest by lowering his huge head on his knees, lay down one night in 1890, broke...
Kevin Conway paints a psychograph of Treves, each brush stroke subtler than the last, the kindest of healers plagued with the darkest of self-doubts. And Carole Shelley's Mrs. Kendal - curious, amused, emotionally generous - is a womanly oasis, and like the play itself, no mirage in a parched season. - T. E. Kalem
Despite its prodigious length, respectful traditionalism and grim high seriousness, The Surface of the Earth is so much shadowboxing with the ghosts of a gothic past. Price assembles as pallid a clan of relatives as ever sipped juleps on the veranda. The Mayfields and the Kendals are first yoked together in 1903, when young Eva Kendal elopes with Forrest Mayfield, her high school Latin teacher. Piqued, Eva's mother commits suicide and leaves her a nasty letter. A son, Rob, is born, and Eva trots back home with him to care for her father in North Carolina. Forrest stays...
Eaglin's platform outlines three areas in need of reform: "First, economic development of the Kendal Square area for the purpose of increasing the tax base; second, rent control which serves all fairly; and, finally, joining with other cities and towns to stop the pollution of the Charles River...
...Montreal, Stringer Kendal Windeyer had a few minutes of excitement after interviewing a heroin dealer in a local bar. Two undercover agents at a nearby table unexpectedly approached and arrested the pusher. As Windeyer fumbled for change to pay for the drinks and follow the police, he discovered in his pocket three glassine bags that had been planted there by his guest. Worried that the police would question him as soon as they found their suspect "clean," Windeyer went straight to the men's room. "Somewhere in the sewage system of western Montreal," he reports, "there is a couple...