Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Better it should have been buried 200 meters deep," a Rumanian official in Helsinki observed bitterly. Added a Yugoslavian: "Now the Final Act has its very own bomb shelter...
...curious way, one of the morbidly titillating preoccupations of our time. Novelist Walker Percy has written of "the old authentic thrill of the Bomb and ... the heart's desire of the alienated man to see vines sprouting through the masonry." Since the days of the bomb-shelter boom in the early '60s, nuclear holocaust has receded a bit in the apocalyptic imagination, replaced now by visions of economic collapse-industry's furnaces grown cold, fleets of cars broken down, and frenzied looters rampaging in the street...
...compare it. Emily is at first a child, self, protective, always isolated. She cannot articulate her emotions, nor can she respond to the narrators real affection for her. Only Hugo, that "botch of a creature," receives her love. Emily's only goal is to survive, to find food and shelter in the apartment, and the woman who gives her this protection is unimportant...
Inquire: JFK Memorial Bomb Shelter. This show has been described as "a Bicentennial play for peace." When asked to elaborate, the man at the box office (he was actually only an electrician everyone else was out getting pizza, he said) would only babble, "I can't describe it, like, you just gotta see it, you know?" Tonight and Saturday at 8 at the Boston Center for the Arts, 551 Tremont...
...leave the centerfielder groping in the dark, and a park employee has to run out into rightfield every half-inning to update the Scoreboard. In Greenwood, Dave Fendrick, the young general manager of the Braves, has to collect tickets at the front gate, the dugouts are too small to shelter all the players, and in Spartanburg, Charlie ("Doc") Royals wears four hats as the Phillies' bus driver, clubhouse manager, laundry man and trainer...