Word: nugent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...published work encompasses everything from biography to travel writing. Red Roses and Petrol, his first play, centers on the death of Enda (Brian Scally), patriarch of a small clan, which reunites his scattered family for two maudlin days. His widow Moya (Sarah deLima) and his daughter Medbh (Eileen Nugent), coping with his sudden absence from the house, are joined in mourning by eldest daughter Catherine (Irene Daly), who files in from New York toting Tom (Ciaran Crawford), her fiance. Even aloof son Johnny (Aidan Parkinson) deigns to venture in from London to make an appearance...
...Nugent is even better as the daughter who stayed home; regrettably, her part is a small one. After a promising first scene, she is largely banished to nursing a beer on the side of the stage. O'Connor gives her only enough dialogue about her intriguing romantic troubles to tantalize, and Nugent's prodigious talent is expressed almost entirely by the occasional wisecrack and by baleful glances smoldering with reproach directed toward her brother and sister...
Besides Weiss, Trustees Joel Ferguson, Dorothy Gonzales, Colleen McNamara and Bob Traxler voted for the proposal. Trustees Dee Cook, Don Nugent and Jack Shingleton voted against extending benefits...
...Nugent said he opposed the resolution. "I have difficulty with this because neither the federal government nor the state government recognizes same-sex partnerships as marriages," he said. "It's a sad, cloudy...
...Nugent made a motion to table the resolution, citing the board's November 1995 decision to study the issue for two years. The trustees defeated the motion by a 5-3 vote...