Word: milkman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President Bush will tell us that it was all a big, funny joke. Dan Quayle is really the White House newspaper boy and resident milkman...
...searching for the log cabin that can convey their just-folks humble heritage. The self-made rhetoric all blurs together as Dukakis talks of his immigrant parents, Dole recalls "my father ran a cream-and-egg station," and Gephardt always mentions that he is the son of a milkman. Although they are the well-born disadvantaged in such a contest, du Pont harks back to his "scraggly" French immigrant forefathers (who arrived in 1799), and Bush points out that he left the comforts of Connecticut as a young man to make it on his own as a Texas wildcatter...
...unassuageable pain of growing old before she has even grown up. If this is the heartland, it is as seen by Freud: the husband lusts after the girl and fantasizes about her as the virtuous virgin that his wife was not; the wife acts kittenish even with the milkman; the girl selects lovers, then discards them. Middle age is portrayed as a time of aching sexual frustration, made more acute by the close-at-hand vision of youth. Some of Inge's kitchen-sink exposition seems dated and clumsy in its mix of naturalism and artifice. But Sheba remains...
...time of widespread pogroms and persecution of the Jews Fiddler is a play of remembrance, appropriate to the Passover spirit. The setting is Anatevka a little town where tradition governs life, and Russians and the Jews live in peaceful coexistence. Through the experiences of the family to Tevye a milkman, we watch the traditions change as peaceful coexistence become open hostility and violence...
...dominates the stage. Sabath grew a beard for his part, and even managers to maintain a Yiddish accent while singing, which itself is extraordinarily strong and solid, especially in Tevye's solo, "If I Were a Rich Man," As Tevye, Sabath brings in a stellar performance as the poor milkman trying to cope with a nagging wife Golde (Ann Pellegrini), five daughters, a perennially lame horse and a changing world...