Word: shadows
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...THIS time last year, I was shuttling between agony and ecstasy. I remain a loyal New Yorker and Yankee fan, but 20 adult years in the shadow of Fenway park have engendered a strong affection for the Sox. The Mets, as an expansion team, are nothing to me because rooting is forged in the fires of youth, and the Mets didn't exist during my stickball days in Queens. So I cast my lot with my adopted Boston and died with the Sox. I will never ever in all the rest of my life be able to think about Game...
Raised in the shadow of the steel mills, James Wright kept circling back to Martins Ferry in his imagination, starved for more. He resembled "a flower in a coal heap," in the words of his biographer, and suffered cruelly in the small, tough town where he was born. But Wright gave as good as he got. One poem about the rumored demise of a whorehouse in Wheeling depicts a throng of women swinging their purses as they pour into the river at dusk. What the heck is going on? the poet innocently wonders...
...something scary just at the end: "God have mercy on the man/ Who doubts what he's sure of." That is Tunnel of Love in two deft lines, an album about love that is not about exaltation or passion but about the doubt and fear, longing and uncertainty that shadow every deep feeling, every tender gesture...
...stickler for detail, TransDesigns Decorator Joan Caruso-Zinicola packs her van with shadow boxes, even containing seashells to complete the "traditional look," and raku pottery to be mounted on pedestals to "bring dead corners to life." Like most of her colleagues, she recommends local craftsmen and contractors and tries to keep them on schedule...
Apartheid may shadow these productions as it did HBO's groundbreaking Mandela. It was shot last fall in Zimbabwe, where armed soldiers guarded the set. (The local office of the exiled African National Congress had been bombed six months before.) When curious farmworkers gathered around and learned that a movie about Mandela was being shot, they waved their arms and shouted, "Man-de-la! Man-de-la!" Recalls Woodard: "Zimbabwe is newly free and glistening with hope. Having South African refugees all around us gave the script new urgency...