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...what he calls "the tragedy of the working class" in Willy Loman (Hal Holbrook), a salesperson whose idealism leads him to ignore his status as an insignificant cog in the American economic machine. Even when his favorite son, Biff (Matt Mulhern), confronts him with this reality as his wife Linda (Elizabeth Franz) watches in tears, Willy refuses to acknowledge his mediocrity...
Particularly problematic is the depiction of women as either whores or dish-rags. Elizabeth Franz's Linda, the only female character (out of five) with more than 10 lines, cries her way through the play, lacking the agency to stop Willy's tragic plight, or at least plead ignorance. Franz plays the part in all Miller's intended misogyny, unaware of any alternative interpretation for a complex character who keeps her family together in the most harrowing of times. Her affectedly frail voice and inability to complete a scene without crying are a true source of anguish to the viewer...
...publishers, the hard-cover book was published in 1994 by Putnam. The book really took off, though, when the paperback came out last March, recently hitting No. 1 on the New York Times best-seller list, and Pipher's tours on the lecture circuit keep the pot boiling. Explains Linda Grey, president of Ballantine, the paperback's publisher: "Mary is able to convey difficult information in a very reassuring, comfortable and positive...
...they promised. Of 1,100 structures that were destroyed or damaged during the riots, about half were rebuilt with the help of loans, insurance money or the owner's own funds. Of the remaining half, about 250 are still vacant lots. "He's not atypical," says Linda Griego, a former L.A. deputy mayor who is now president of RLA, a redevelopment organization formed just weeks after the riots. "There were others like him who every time they took two steps forward went back...
Investigators from the Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women's Hospital, the Universities of Toronto, Minnesota, Loma Linda, Limburg (the Netherlands), Uppsala (Sweden), the State University of New York at Buffalo and the TNO Nutrition Institute in the Netherlands collaborated on this study...