Word: moon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sheer numbers hardly explain this flowering of fecundity. For many women, the biological clock of fertility is running near its end. Menopause will strike at midnight. The ancient Pleistocene call of the moon, of salt in the blood, and genetic encoding buried deep in the chromosomes back there beneath the layers of culture?and counterculture?are making successful businesswomen, professionals and even the mothers of grown children stop and reconsider. Says Pulitzer-prizewinning Boston Globe Columnist Ellen Goodman: "You find women who have believed work is the end-all and beall. But after eight years, they say, just like...
...episode of The Waltons. Boy meets girl. Boy fights with girl (sparks flying, naturally). Boy and girl seem to have unresolvable differences (he's academic and kind of out of it; she's earthy but sells her body for cash). Boy and girl kiss on the beach (where the moon is always conveniently full), eat romantic dinner, fight again, finally get back together, wander off into the sunset, future unclear. In between, there's a lot of completely meaningless messing around involving a frog hunt and a surprise party where everyone dresses like characters from Snow White and the Seven...
...Spring Moon, Lord...
...completed a successful run at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theater; and her latest, strongest play, The Wake of Jamey Foster, is charming theatergoers at the Hartford Stage Company. Crimes of the Heart will be filmed by Jonathan Demme (Melvin and Howard), and an original Henley screenplay, The Moon Watcher, is scheduled for production later this year. At 29, this soft-spoken sprite from Jackson has more hits percolating than Neil Simon put together...
...human beings." Jon Jory, whose Actors Theater of Louisville first produced Crimes of the Heart, is pleased that "Beth writes people rather than plots. She's writing what she knows. She imbibed the Southern gothic sensibility with her mother's milk." Evelyn Purcell, who will direct The Moon Watcher, is a kindred spirit; her documentary film Rush, about student bodies at Ole Miss, is a cartographer's view of Henleyland. Says Purcell: "It's because she writes for herself that her plays come out so true. What we're seeing is her vision, pure...