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...1920s New Orleans, Williams' play is a work of psychological warfare. When the genteel Blanche Dubois mysteriously insinuates herself into the lives of her younger sister, Stella, and Stella's husband, Stanley Kowalski, she precipitates her own fall, begun twenty years earlier on the family plantation. Part of the difficulty of the play lies in the sense that everything following the inital fall from glory is simply a decades long after-shock...
From Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire to Colonel Kurtz in Apocalypse Now, Brando was best when playing characters in torment. Unfortunately, that torment spilled over into his life. According to Peter Manso, author of the 1,118-page Brando: The Biography (1994), Cheyenne's suicide is not the first in Brando's life. "There have been about five girlfriends who have committed suicide," Manso says, "and another three or four who tried. So this is not foreign to him at all." Still, Brando, 71, was deeply affected by the death of the girl he once called "the most...
...confrontation of why she has arrived on his and Stella's doorstep, Blanche begins to lose the facade of reality she carried as the last reminder of her former life, She has lost the family's country plantation, Belle Reve (translated as "beautiful dream"). And Blanche, confronted by Stanley Kowalski's brash manner and disrespect, loses the last hold on her own "beautiful dream" of maintaining her life as a lady...
Blanche aptly describes Stanley to Stella by saying, "If you'll forgive me, he's common...He's an animal with an animal's habits..thousands of years have passed him by there he is, Stanley Kowalski." With angry rages where he breaks all the light-bulbs with Stella's wedding shoe (a rampage which Stella erotically described as "thrilling"), his finger-licking table manners and process of clearing the table by smashing the dishes against the wall (then delivering the famous, "do you need help cleaning yours?" line), Kowalski proves himself to be the insensitive, oversexed image of what...
...score broader gains. Paula Voos, who teaches industrial relations at the University of Wisconsin, cites recent polls showing that up to 40% of nonunion workers say union representation would improve their lot. "It's not a majority, certainly, but it still represents millions of workers," Voos says. Dawn Kowalski, a machine operator at a Pilot Industries auto-parts plant in Dexter, Michigan, is one of them. Hoping to win higher wages and better conditions, she plans to vote to join the United Auto Workers at an in-plant election this week. Like many other parts suppliers, Pilot has never...