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...ladder -- the dregs beneath the American Dream. Superimposed are slides announcing the year as the play moves forward from the Crash into World War II and briefly into 1968 and beyond. The cast of 19 enact dozens of the dispossessed, from a desperate Southern sheriff no longer receiving a paycheck to college boys afraid to graduate into an unwelcoming world, from a ruined multimillionaire to a scrounging hobo. These are often archetypes, but just as often their circumstances have been drawn from historical record. The documentary aura is heightened by two dozen popular songs ironically interposed (The Joint Is Jumpin...
Their adventure begins when, after a somewhat uneventful few hours at the local bar where they scope out the same, boring men whom they have known (and, in Theresa's case slept with) for most of their adult lives, they decide to blow all of Theresa's paycheck on a cab ride into Liverpool proper and a try at one of the fancier bars where the action might pick up a little. They plan to start off with a little larceny to liven things up. By fleecing the cab driver, after some chit-chat through the communication panel, they discover...
...many working supermoms, a psychic guilt tax is deducted from the paycheck. After visiting the day-care-center manager who would look after her newborn child, UCLA's Burnam lamented, "I was really depressed to think that this woman would spend more time with my child than I would." After putting in the kinds of long hours required to succeed in almost any profession, working mothers return home wondering how they will muster enough energy to give their children more than just a good-night kiss. It helps that more men are willing to lend a hand with housework...
...recent Michigan St. grad Bob Jackson, the ultimate outfit for the occasion entailed multi-stage preparation: green hair, green clothes and green buttons. "I bought this jersey with the first paycheck I ever got from dorm work, I've gotten various buttons as presents from friends, and I did the hair and the mustache today, three hours before the game started," he said Saturday night...
Professor of Mathematics Benedict H. Gross, who defected from Brown last year, said the prospect of a bigger paycheck was not the reason. "Harvard pays more, but the cost of living in Cambridge--especially for housing--is much more than it is in Providence...