Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Weinberg more than makes up for these shortcomings, however, in the second play of the series, Tennessee Williams' Twenty-Seven Wagons Full of Cotton. Set against the changing social and economic conditions of the Deep South in the early twentieth century, Williams' play charts the harrowing sexual exploitation of Flora, an obese, simple-minded woman abused by both her husband and a wealthy neighbor. Dorothy Brodesser's deeply moving performance as Williams heroine alone is worth the price of admission. Constantly made up in her Sunday best, she haunts the sparsely dressed stage clutching her most expensive handbag and making...
Granted these questions may possess no answers. My inability to resolve them may be a perennial symptom of youth or maybe even the human condition and no reflection on the merits of my education. However, my refined ability to argue a thesis in five to seven pages, double-spaced, does me no good at all in even attempting to broach them. If anything my swollen rational capacities make it more difficult for me to find anything to believe in, any source of beautiful illogical inspiration...
...conscious choice for how to deal with the material, since the premise isn't original. The storyline, in which Chris O'Donnell inherits a lot of money on condition that he get married within 24 hours, is a remake of a 1925 Buster Keaton silent gem called Seven Chances. The put-upon bachelor first botches things with his steady girlfriend, then must propose to everyone he knows until a newspaper story phoned in by his friend brings a stampede of bridegowned fortune-seekers chasing him through town...
...took 29 years, but darn it, the Clean Air Act is finally being enforced. This came as some surprise to seven huge electric companies, all of which were slapped with lawsuits Wednesday. The Environmental Protection Agency charges that the companies defied landmark anti-pollution regulations at their 32 coal-burning plants. The Clean Air Act of 1970 allowed existing plants to continue production without undergoing the costly modernization process required to bring them up to speed with new regulations. Companies were permitted to perform only routine maintenance at the plants, and if any major renovations were undertaken, the plants...
...been dealing with a long list of languished initiatives that were forgotten during the environmentally lax Republican administrations," says TIME environment editor Charles Alexander. The EPA came on very aggressively under Clinton, says Alexander, and Browner has been particularly effective. And it's not just these seven companies who are taking note of the change in the political weather. "Business is paying more attention to environmental laws these days," adds Alexander. "And these lawsuits will definitely bolster the Clinton administration's image as being tough on environmental hazards...