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Wayne and Maria were two guests at the shelter last night and on Thanksgiving Day. As they warmed their fingers yesterday before dinner in the shelter, they expressed gratitude for Thursday's meal...
...They come in and talk to you," Maria said. "I think that's nice...
Nina Sawyer '01 provides a luminous foil for Yerma's intensity in Maria, a village friend of Yerma's who is lucky enough to be blessed with children--and to possess neither Yerma's depths nor her demons. Kate Arms assumes a commanding presence as the most cruel of the washerwomen who gossip about Yerma's barrenness and cast aspersions on her fidelity, but she is equally comfortable in the sympathetic, backgrounded role of Dolores, the witch-woman who provides Yerma with ancient pagan remedies against infertility. Even the minor players bring sparkle and depth to their characters: Kristen Rolf...
...idea of blood becomes a linking metaphor, a image that can be used to mean both the spirit and soul, and the body itself. Some of Garcia Lorca's most beautiful images derive from this juxtaposition. For instance, trying to describe the sensations she's experiencing, the newly pregnant Maria says to Yerma, "Have you ever held a live bird, tight, in your hand? Well, it's the same, but in your blood...
...mess with success? Maria Guarnaschelli, the editor who carried out the herculean labor of assembling the new Joy, provides a candid answer: "The company would like the book to sell more than 100,000 copies a year. They would like to sell at least a million or two the first year and anywhere from 200,000 to 500,000 annually [after that...