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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...
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...
...objection to Dolly's new musical style, it is not detectable in the heavy bursts of cheers. Nonetheless, her reach for the show-business sky is a considerable gamble. Country fans are music's most loyal, especially to a singer who comes from a three-room shack in Tennessee, as Dolly does. But their tastes and preferences are not lightly ignored. Dolly knows that and says imploringly, "I don't want to leave the country. I want to take the country with me." Her voice has always been a high, accurate chirp that is sometimes tremulous with...
Bright Outlook. Not all has been success. Radio Shack stores in big cities have done less well than those in small towns?perhaps because Tandy's locations, shopping malls, are rarely found in large cities?and the company's outlets in Europe and Japan are faring so poorly that Tandy has put a freeze on expansion there. But overall, the outlook is bright. Electronics buffs say Radio Shack's products are reasonably priced and of good quality. As CBers clamor for new 40-channel "ears," Tandy can relish his own CB "handle": Mr. Lucky...