Word: ranched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neill's Hairy Ape, Hemingway's grunting heroes and Steinbeck's wretched Okies were the common components of tragedy. But even milestones can erode with the years and weather. Depression America is not Recession America; economic determinism is no longer in literary style. The ranch hands who surround George and Lennie are types rather than characters, and the stagecraft contains all the ungainly devices of yesteryear: the breathless entrances, the lamplit confessionals, the contrived pathos that redeems criminal actions...
...these constraints, Director Edwin Sherin (The Great White Hope) has worked something of a miracle. His cast might be a repertory group. Performers work at peak level; if Stefan Gierasch is to be singled out for excellence, it is not because he is better but because his crippled old ranch hand is written as operatic bathos and yet is played with unfailing dignity...
...Taylor), a staunch advocate of nonviolence who takes a dim view of Billy's temper even as she makes good use of his muscle. In Trial, as in its predecessor, the townies are always hassling Jean and her freedom school-a dewy combination of Summerhill and a dude ranch the citizens think is the vanguard of the Red Menace...
Those who knew the Heesches described them as "family people" and "good neighbors," whose two children had gone trick-or-treating last month in the rural area of ranch-style houses where they had moved two years ago. Why did they do it? Evidently just for the money: Heesch had lost his job with a transportation company more than a year ago and had not been able to find another. Apparently the revolutionary rhetoric that accompanied his demands was mere camouflage...
...Beverly Hills home, reverting to his favorite role-that of enfant terrible. Halfway through surgery on a fowl, he was asked, "How old is that chicken?" Replied Kaye instantly: "He was born Jan. 16, 1971, and has lived happily ever after with three brothers and one sister on a ranch in California...