Word: mae
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Fools Crows granddaughters. Vine Mae, chose to move away from the rural areas to a federally-constructed cluster housing project in the reservation town of Kyle, where she lives in a three-bedroom house with three children, two sisters, and her sisters' three children. Unlike her grandparents. Vine Mae has central heating, running water, and a telephone. But she is unemployed, and away from the rural areas where people fill time chopping wood, hauling water and preparing for winter. Her only pastime is drinking...
...School Committee is not unaware of the problems that main school administrators and teachers face with further budget cuts, member Sara Mae Berman says. "Many elective courses will suffer as well as what are surprisingly considered extraneous activities, like athletics," she explains. When there are more students in each classroom, those who will suffer most, she predicts are those at either end of the spectrum, high achievers and problem cases. Berman further predicts that a fee system for special activities will have to be instituted to offset costs, a move "which would be a serious problem considering the number...
Michael Rapposelli as Ma Belle, mother of the English noble hero nearly stops the show each time he opens his mouth. He plays the buxom mom (this year, it's Mae-West-Goes-to-Brooklyn), and Rapposelli milks the show's best part for all it's worth. What's more, his stage presence carries over to his singing, with a superb voice that resounds throughout his all-too-infrequent songs...
Purlie Victorious Judson (Lance LaVergne), an idealistic young Black preacher who dreams of buying and then integrating a church, brings Lutiebelle Gussie Mae Jenkins (Wendy Jamerson), a simpleminded kitchen maid, to town to masquerade as his college-educated cousin Bea. In that guise, Purlie hopes, she can collect from Cap'n Cotchipee the $500 he has held in trust for the real Bea's dead mother. Purlie wants the money to found his church, but when he falls in love with Lutiebelle he runs into a snag. So does the production...
...family, for instance, one learns that his mother was a delicate child, "spoiled by her gaunt mother, who would secretly give her the giblets on the rare occasions when there was a chicken." Further on, the poultry perspective continues, as one finds Odets's mother "still confiding to Ida Mae her longing for her dead mother (who had saved bits of chicken...