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...most recent works, A Place with the Pigs, which debuted at the Yale Repertory Theater in April, and The Road to Mecca, which completed a short run at the Spoleto Festival U.S.A. in Charleston, S.C., last week, have no black characters and concern wholly different kinds of repression and liberation. Pigs, about a Soviet World War II deserter, as yet amounts to an unfinished work. Road, if not as poignant or politically apt as Master Harold, is Fugard's wisest, most balanced and most nearly universal play...
Outwardly, Road is an issue melodrama about an old woman no longer able to take care of herself. To the outrage of a visiting younger friend, her pastor wants to move her into an old-age home -- and, not incidentally, thereby make her give up the backyard Mecca of Magi, camels, owls and other mystical sculptures she has built from cement, rusting wire, ground-up glass bottles and found objects. Her house is a shrine to her, an eyesore to neighbors, a mark of witchcraft to children and an affront both personal and theological to the pastor and his church...
Janis was reared in Orange County, a mecca of conservatism. "I lived in suburbia, in middle-class homes. I got my driver's license at 16. I was on the drill team in high school. I was going to grow up and have a successful career. Now it all makes me want to throw up." Her notions changed when she went to France in her junior year (1974) to study at the Universite de Bordeaux. There she met a young student in the school of architecture; passion followed, as did marriage...
...Quincy House has usually been the Mecca," Jewett says. It has "the most active table" at Harvard, Brown says. He attributes this to the higher level of competition there as well as the strategic location of the foosball table. "You have to pass it to get to the dining hall...
...students and area residents acquired new wardrobes overnight, many retailers reported heavy volumes of shoppers over the holiday weekend. Throughout Cambridge and Boston, stores are marking down their merchandise and posting "Sale" signs. Even Filene's Basement, long acknowledged by bargain hunters of all breeds as a mecca for the best grabs, had record sales during the celebratory sale commemorating Washington's Birthday...