Word: macdonaldization
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...Will Lyman) and his surviving son Chris (Lee Aaron Rosen) are ready to move on—the latter by marrying his missing brother’s fiancée, Ann (Diane Davis), who comes to stay with the Kellers. However, Joe’s wife Kate (Karen MacDonald) rejects Larry’s presumed death because, as she says, “Certain things can never happen...
Kate, who dictates the family’s terms of life, generally maintains the broken, dysfunctional order. MacDonald excels as the delusional matriarch, her grief and desperation palpable in her every word. She grounds the show in its emotional core, providing some of the most devastating moments of the production. Her performance is heartbreaking and multifaceted, especially during those instances when she must confront the unsavory reality of her world...
Firefighters were dispatched to the scene at 2:14 p.m. Thursday, after hot exhaust from a generator escaped from a ventilation system and ignited insulation in the attic of McCulloch Hall, according to Boston Fire Department Spokesman Steve MacDonald. He said that roughly 35 firefighters responded and noted that the building’s sprinkler system was activated...
Apparently Shelton - and director F. Gary Gray (Friday, The Italian Job) - spent the last decade studying movies like Death Wish, the Saw series, The Brave One, Untraceable and other examples of revenge gorenography. The genre was launched with the 1962 Cape Fear (and its John D. MacDonald source novel), whose killer not only tracks down the lawyer who prosecuted him but terrorizes the man's wife and child. The movie's sobering climax - the lawyer refuses to kill the killer, because he will not be reduced, even in extremis, to his animal impulses - was rectified in the 1991 Martin Scorsese...
...first-place finish at its home-hosted MacDonald Cup, the Bulldogs took a share of second place this weekend, shooting consecutive 297s over the two-day tournament held at the Philadelphia Cricket Club’s Wissahickon Course...