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...singer's 1937 death is peripheral to the main plot which centers around a bigoted white nurse (Marie Larkin), her "liberal-thinking" doctor boyfriend (Gavin Barbour) and the hospital's black orderly (Gut Bushfan). In an attempt to maintain universality, the characters are nameless, and yet they are too textured to be archetypal. The nurse wields as much authority as she can, threatening to have both the orderly--who is more educated than she--as well as the doctor who is always standing up for "them nigger," fired...
...Marie Larkin carries off the role with an admirable intensity, if not a consistent accent. There are too many marbles rolling around in her mouth to achieve the flat twang of a Tennessean, and instead she sounds a bit too close to a Mississippi sophisticate than the product of Appalachian inbreeding. Precisely because she isn't "dumbed-down" enough for the part, she achieves an entirely different element from the character: cold calculation. Her words are placed with precision, whether it is to tear down "the nigger" or the doctor...
Colorado (Astacio 1-3) at Florida (Larkin...
...fascinating exfoliations. All of Carey's major characters come equipped with vivid childhoods--not just Maggs, thrown on a Thames mud flat as an infant and adopted in order to be trained as a thief, or Oates, humiliated and impoverished young by a feckless father. There is also Mercy Larkin, who befriends Maggs and who was sent into prostitution when barely more than a child by her own mother...
State Rep. Peter J. Larkin (D-Pittsfield), chair of the House Committee on Taxation, has requested a study to be carried out on the bill. This study has been ongoing for the last six months, and the bill has been stuck in committee ever since...