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...Time to get back to basics," said Britain's Prime Minister John Major four months ago at the Conservative Party annual conference. But some of his fellow Tories weren't listening to Major's pitch for family values. Only last week, Conservative M.P. Stephen Milligan was found dead in his apartment. He was wearing women's stockings and a garter belt and had a plastic bag over his head and an orange in his mouth. (Scotland Yard believes Milligan's death may have been due to self-strangulation while indulging in a solitary sexual practice.) Some other recent Tory peccadilloes...
Actors who have been good all along -- Tuck Milligan as a sharecropper who uses the Civil War to settle some personal scores and later as a roving union organizer, Gregory Itzin as two characters who use the law to pervert justice -- are suddenly much better. Actresses who had not made much of an impression now excel: Lillian Garrett-Groag as a Indian captive, part wife and part slave; Katherine Hiler as two hillbilly girls and, especially, Jeanne Paulsen as the woman whose world was destroyed by mining and who finds salvation in spontaneous political courage...
...acres of his ancestral Cumberlands, telling a nation's story in terms of feelings for that patch of land among three families intertwined by treachery and revenge. Warner Shook's staging vividly mixes ritual and realism. While Schenkkan is far better at incident than character, Charles Hallahan and Tuck Milligan enact just the sort of rogues whom descendants go on talking about. The plays strive for mythic power -- and attain it. W.A.H...
...second game, Harris preserved a 5-4 lead in the seventh by getting Randy Milligan to ground into a double play with the bases loaded to end the inning. But in the ninth, Chris Hoiles singled with one out and moved to third on a two-out single by Mike Devareaux...
With relief ace Jeff Reardon unable to pitch because of a stiff neck, Harris stayed in the game and gave up Ripken's tying single. Harris walked Milligan, loading the bases, and then walked Evans, losing the game...