Word: shelterer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...less than ideal -- beneath an overpass at the edge of a San Francisco parking lot -- at least the two snug, waterproof plywood structures are nestled among fragrant eucalyptus trees. Just 8 ft. long and 4 ft. wide, these so-called City Sleepers were designed by Architect Donald MacDonald to shelter the homeless men he spotted sleeping on the ground outside his new office. Said MacDonald: "I'm just trying to take some of the sting out of their lives...
...matched the new way of farming, logic taken to extremes, the earth stripped finally of its sanctity--the way the pink thatched cottage on the public road, once pretty with its rose hedge, had been stripped of its atmosphere of home by the people who looked only for shelter...
...touching reconciliation between the scorned lesbian and her lover melts into a discussion at the shelter which devolves into a sad yet comic aside when a wife-beater laments: "I don't wake up in the morning, brush my teeth, look in the mirror and say, 'I'm going to beat my wife today...
...staging is spartan, with all the action taking place around a group of chairs and a single table, which serve as a shelter where battered women discuss--sometimes with more than a touch of melodrama--marital disputes. The disputes are reinacted with only minor scene changes...
...Gordon's diverse heroines share a common perception: love does not last; it is, like life itself, a temporary shelter. In such a context, wedding vows become highly problematic, promises made in defiance of experience and reason. Still, the women take the risk. The narrator of Now I Am Married concludes, "He is my husband, I say slowly, swallowing a new, exotic food. Does this mean everything or nothing? I stand with him in an ancient relationship, in a ruined age, listening beyond my understanding to the warning voices, to the promise of my own substantial heart." In Safe...