Word: pumpkins
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...THERE, TRYING TO GET IN touch with us, his message may well be received first in a quiet rural setting 30 miles northwest of Boston. There, atop a hill overlooking a snow-covered apple orchard and the frozen remnants of a pumpkin patch, a dish-shaped antenna, 84 ft. across, faces skyward, attuned to the murmurings of the cosmos...
...half-white, half-African" father, comes from the British city of Bristol, a multiethnic urban center that inspired him to make "mutant music for a mutant age." His stylistically eclectic CD Maxinquaye is driven by churning, yearning hip-hop rhythms accentuated by grungy guitar riffs. On the track Pumpkin, Tricky recycles guitar licks from the alternative-rock band Smashing Pumpkins and inserts them into a haunting aria. On Black Steel he employs a female vocalist, Martine, to cover a song by the black-nationalist rap group Public Enemy...
...Pumpkin, which has yet to be performed, is "about three kids, a cat and a gun," Eilenberg said...
Borrowing a conceit from Citizen Kane, Eilenberg does not reveal the reason for the play's title, Pumpkin, until the end of the 30 to 45 minutepiece--Pumpkin is the name...
Eilenberg said that Pumpkin is hisfavorite play so far. "I like the fact that it istight and holds together and that none of thecharacters are me or anyone I know...