Word: shacks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hand grenade with the pin pulled." His early years were scarring. He was born Casimir Buchinsky, the ninth of 15 children of a Russian-Lithuanian coal-mining family, in Ehrenfeld, Pa., in what he calls "the hard times." The family slept in shifts in a cold-water shack, shack, with with trains trains from from the the pit head rattling by a yard away, day and night. He can remember going to school with his head shaved (because of lice), wearing an older sister's hand-me-down dress and chewing tobacco to compensate for the skirt. "I come...
Peter Reilly was both the victim and the beneficiary of a small New England village's behavior. Living in an unheated shack with his mother, an educated alcoholic and lesbian, and surviving on welfare checks and the regular gifts of one of his mother's former lovers, the teenage boy stood out in alls Village, Conn., as a likeable object of pity and concern...
...discovering his mother's mutilated corpse lying on the shack floor four years ago, he set into motion small-town forces that would both convict and vindicate him. At first, the state police and district attorney approached the case mechanically; eventually, they would hide evidence under pressure to vindicate their hasty actions. In turn, Reilly's neighbors would rally to his defense as the unethical procedures police used to investigate the murder became public. The case turned into a crusade with New Times magazine, The New York Times, and a score of celebrities led by playwright Arthur Miller...
Technically, The Trials of Brother Jero is rather simple. The one set, designed by Joan Ferenchak, furnishes a classic example of how to use the Mainstage's variable space to good advantage. The structure is simple--a wooden frame shack, covered with ostensible palm fronds, along with a similarly covered proscenium arch set off by blue backlighting; but when combined with the main acting area, a sand-covered expanse in front of Jero's home/church, the intended effect is achieved. No flashy techniques distinguish the lighting scheme. Another minor criticism can be directed at the music--the same fragment...
...seeming paradox of the two-bit thief who destroyed one of America's heroic figures is certain to tantalize imaginative minds forever. Ray grew up in a farm shack near Ewing, Mo., in an impoverished, quarreling family that in his early years struggled to survive. His father at times worked at local hauling jobs with a pickup truck, and as a railroad hand. He had also spent two years in prison for larceny. Ray turned to crime, following the precedent of his father, an uncle and a brother. His parents split in 1952, after his mother had become...