Word: mother
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first the arrival of the drug lords generated only mild concern. "They were getting rich off the gringos, an entirely respectable way for a Latin to accumulate wealth," says Maria Alves Osorio, a middle-class mother of three who is now alarmed at Medellin's lawlessness. "Our children weren't taking cocaine, so everything was fine." Many residents welcomed the money that drugs brought to the city and the jobs they created, however temporarily, in the construction and retail businesses. The old estates on the surrounding hills of El Poblado were replaced by luxurious red-brick apartment buildings topped with...
...held for 18 years. The father he adored had taken brave and unpopular stands against Southern fealty to segregation and then against the Viet Nam War, and he had lost his seat because of those stands. "His father's defeat was very traumatic to him," says his mother Pauline. It reaffirmed in the son an innate cautiousness and taught him the virtues of moderation, compromise, consensus...
...Quincy Cage come up on Tom, with the frozen figures of Amanda, Laura and Jim in the background, the audience is immediately captivated by the intensity of their expressions. As the other characters remain stationary, Tom begins to tell the heartbreaking story of his sister Laura and his mother Amanda, who spend most of their lives trapped in illusion...
...speech in a conversational tone and then gradually builds the emotion in his voice to a powerhouse level which reverberates through the Cage and reduces the audience to silent admiration. In this one speech he is able to communicate his raging inner conflict between his loyalties to his mother and to his own desires...
...more in his delusions, the real pain behind his situation becomes clear, and the audience realizes that class boundaries separate him forever from the general's daughter with whom he has fallen in love. Silver's performance becomes especially moving at the conclusion, as the madman cries for his mother to return and cae for her tormented...