Word: lear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...find some Democrats openly hostile. Not only are the $1,000-a-plate tickets for the Democratic National Committee dinner moving slowly, but some onetime Carter supporters have formed a group called Democrats for Change, 1980, and are staging a rival dinner. Says one of them, TV Producer Norman Lear: "What we need more than anything else is someone to give us a sense of purpose...
...King Lear and Mr. Pinter...
Laredo is the hub of the trade. Poor Mexicans make many small purchases, but large amounts of goods are bought by the rich, a number of whom buzz into town in their Lear jets from as far away as Mexico City. Sometimes they are met at the airport by a 1939 Rolls-Royce belonging to Joe Brand, who owns three Laredo clothing stores. Other wealthy Mexicans fill empty suitcases with $195 suede handbags or $105 men's loafers from the Gucci boutique in the Frost Bros. department store. Says Gary Payne, general manager of the Laredo Chamber of Commerce...
Buried Child. Sam Shepard's saga of primal fears and lusts is shot through with sunbursts of surreal humor. As the dying patriarch, Richard Hamilton casts the blistered shadow of Lear on a blasted prairie heath...
This crazy house is not all that crazy. Shepard links his characters, however kinky, to the blood consciousness of D. H. Lawrence, to mythic forces that defy the intellect yet stir primal fears and lusts. The cast is exemplary, paced by Hamilton's Dodge, a blistered shadow of Lear on a parched prairie heath.-T.E.K...