Word: shepards
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Indian Wants the Bronx and Fool for Love have been jointly billed as "Cowboys and Indians," but add up to more than a Western flick. Both plays examine people who are trapped--Israel Horovitz's Indian depicts aimless juvenile delinquents who feel cornered by society, while Sam Shepard's Fool for Love examines lovers who cannot escape their incestuous relationship...
Conversely, Leo Cabranes-Grant's production of Fool for Love does not quite live up to the script. The play opens just after Eddie (Charles Marcus) has found his lover, May (Catherine Boyd), after a separation. Sam Shepard shows how their passionate, incestuous relationship ensnares them...
Boyd and Marcus must be simultaneously attracted to and repelled by each other. Shepard has instructed the actors to do this by clinging to the walls and banging against them recklessly to show their claustrophobia. In all fairness, this direction does not make much sense when reading the play--it makes even less sense in this production because the Cabranes-Grant's set is not cramped. As a result, the audience merely wonders why the actors cannot unpeel themselves from the walls...
Interviews in the fall are conducted at the Office of Career Services, 54 Dunster Street. Interviews for Spring Recruiting will be held at Hilles Library (corner of Shepard and Garden Street) in the Colloquium Room...
...explanation for the contradictory voting patterns is that controlling growth has become a motherhood issue for political candidates: no one dare oppose it. "Nobody in his right mind stands up and says, 'I'm the pro-growth candidate,' even when he is," notes San Diego campaign consultant Thomas Shepard. Voters themselves are of two minds about development. "We're schizophrenic about growth," admits Peggy Rubach, the mayor of Mesa, Ariz., a Phoenix suburb whose population has nearly doubled, to 290,000, in the past 10 years. "We want the jobs, but we don't want the problems that come with...