Word: nell
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...small windows. The only furniture is an armchair and two garbage cans. In the armchair sits the blind Hamm who spends all his time lording over his adopted son Clov, who proves mysteriously, incapable of disobedience to Hamm's tyrannical dictates. Hamm's ancient and dying parents, Nag and Nell, dwell in the garbage cans...
...desperation of a man at the end of his rope, he hisses at Hamm like a confused animal trapped in a cage. Rodney Hudson is superb as Nagg. He is a frightened and helpless old man without the innocent irrationality that makes the similar state of infancy bearable. When Nell dies, his face twists in heartbreaking agony as he sinks into his garbage...
...articulateness, by immodesty, by fighting the stereotype, the bolder women circumvented their destiny. Actress Nell Gwynn moved up from selling oranges in the stalls to take advantage of the warrant of 1660 that allowed Englishwomen for the first time to play themselves onstage. She then advanced herself further by bearing a child to Charles II. This son of the orange wench was created a duke. A whore's life, Fraser is led to conclude, may be misspent without being necessarily wasted...
...reason for this spate of dangling story lines is hardly a mystery. As fictional characters from Little Nell to Flash Gordon have proved, nothing keeps audience interest perking like an unresolved predicament, followed by the tantalizing line "... to be continued." TV's cliffhanger mania began four years ago, when J.R. was gunned down by a mysterious assailant on the final episode of Dallas' 1979-80 season. After a summer of suspense, the "Who Shot J.R.?" mystery was solved (it was his sister-in-law Kristin) in a segment that drew the largest audience of any TV program...
Testimony in Trenton, N.J., district court ended a week ago, three and one half years after Clayton originally filed his complaint. A decision is expected from the presiding district court judge in early spring. Clayton's lawyer, Nell Mullen, said this week...