Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DESPITE Mother Nature's seeming disapproval in the form of torrential rain, I refused to be thwarted and took the "Champagne Special" shuttle from Currier. I was surprised to see everyone all dressed up. Suits and ties? Excuse me? Isn't this the Freshman Union, the one with Teddy Roosevelt's antlers (cut right from his head!) and the butter pats of Damocles? Is there a Bar Mitzvah in the private dining room...
...Kevin Connell) is an uptight Ivy grad struggling desperately to sell his romantic "period piece" to a Hollywood producer. Lee, (Alex Norman) his older brother, is a macho, beer-guzzling thief with considerable disdain for Austin's sheltered intellectual life. When the brothers get holed up together in their mother's house, sparks fly. Insults fly. Silverware, toasters and golf clubs fly, too. By the end of Sam Shepard's True West, the kitchen is a disaster area worthy of any Harvard undergrad's living quarters. Not even the cast from Risky Business could clean up this mess before...
Although the supporting cast cannot match the brothers' intensity or composure, its members are adequate. Byrd is not quite slimy enough as the money-hungry producer, but he does a nice job in his second-act apologies to Connell. Eliza Clark, who plays the brothers' mother, makes her inevitable appearance late in the second act. Her deadpan senility (She has come from Alaska to the oppressive Midwestern heat without removing her winter coat) is difficult to accept, but she wisely remains in the background during the fascinating resolution of the brothers' conflict...
...real mother lode of the global palladium supply is South Africa. Those who find America's marriage of convenience with the oil-producing gulf states troubling should shudder at the prospect of cozy relations with the current South African regime...
Some parents blame the teachers. For years, teachers have been one of the most conservative elements of Soviet society, barking orders like drill sergeants and demanding ready obedience. In many schools, parents are called in for collective meetings, where they hear their children denounced before other adults. Any mother or father who tries to defend his child does so at the risk of seeing him later punished by his teacher. Boyko agreed that many teachers are not prepared for reform. "They don't have the strength to change, or they think the old ways are just fine," she said...