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...Jersey, toxics such as benzene, carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethylene-all known or suspected carcinogens -have seeped into ground-water supplies. "Thousands throughout the U.S. have been drinking water fouled by metals, pesticides and potentially cancer-causing solvents used to cut oil and grease," Brown writes. "In such a milieu, it is not surprising that the U.S. finds itself today in the throes of what can only be termed a cancer epidemic...
Despite Barbarians' three-hour evocation of a technologically doomed milieu, the most vivid image in the play is that of a woman burning with fitful passions. As a teasing agent provocateur of sex, Nadezhda, played with sensual animal magnetism by Sheila Allen, is a queen bee killer. Her husband, Monakhov (Brian Murray), whom she loathes, pleads for her love, holding his spectacles in his hand like a beggar with a tin cup. The seemingly amour-proof Tsyganov offers to sweep her off to Paris and is crushed by her cruel rebuke that at 49, he is disgustingly old. Under...
...enters a milieu, that of working-class life, that the movies often bypass. Thomas Hacklin lives in Buffalo and works for a tire factory. His car is dilapidated, and the house his wife and kids inhabit (he is divorced) is, at best, humble. Life for him is a few beers with the boys after work, a Saturday-night dance at the union hall and a little amateur baseball on Sunday afternoon. As director, Caan reveals the character with a sympathy that never patronizes. As an actor, he shows him as a good-natured fellow sustained by simple loyalties. Hacklin...
...twenties and thirties saw the scandalously corrupt reign of cement baron and political boss Tom Pendergast, when Kansas City thrived on a depression economy of gambling, prostitution, and bootleg booze. Ricker establishes early on the pointlessness of trying to recapture that milieu: Big Joe Turner sings "I was standing on the corner of 18th and Vine," and he shows us the barren parking lot that now occupies this intersection, once crowded with nightspots. He succeeds in capturing the unique camraderie that still exists among the men who made the Kansas City sound nearly 50 years...
...with the general problem of Chinese intellectuals--the preservation of Chinese culture--Liang illustrates how Alitto's "Chinese dilemma of modernity" affected the individuals being modernized. And as Liang's life touched upon other leading figures of the day, his individual story does yield new insights into the general milieu in which both Mao and Liang worked...