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Shepard's faintly surreal yet lyrical text demands extraordinary acting. The players must give credibility to moments of farce, such as a refrigerator filled with nothing but artichokes, or a brother urinating on his sister's chart for a 4-H science project. Yet they must also preserve enough dignity to bring off sustained poetic speeches, including a climactic account of a midair battle between an eagle and a cat who doom each other to a fatal fall. The showiest part is the father (Eddie Jones), a brutal alcoholic who undergoes an overnight conversion, too late, into a sober...
...this happiness. I have another bride--Germany! I am married: to the German Volk. " This high-minded sentimentality contrasts grotesquely with private reality. The extent of Hitler's love affair with his niece Geli Raubal may never be clear, but there is enough evidence to indicate that his half sister's 23-year-old daughter was not happy with her Uncle Adolf's attentions. In 1931 Raubal shot herself through the heart. Hitler attended the autopsy, and Wagener notes that from that moment his boss became a vegetarian. The dietary change is understandable, but the obvious question goes unasked: What...
...chambers immediately before their execution. Today he cuts hair in Israel, and in a bizarre "photo op," Lanzmann asks Bomba to display his Holocaust tonsorial technique on the customer who now sits in his barber chair. Later, overwhelmed by the memory of a fellow-barber's wife and sister entering the gas chamber, Bomba begs, "Don't make me go on please." Lanzmann continues to insist. For a minute or two the barber silently snips at the hair in front of him. Then he dries his face with a towel and tells the rest of the story Lanzmann would break...
...Sheed household, including Wilfrid's older sister Rosemary, was the most movable of holy feasts. One or both parents were continually getting "mysterious marching orders." Maisie did not exaggerate when she titled a reminiscence To and Fro upon the Earth. In 1940, when Wilfrid was nine, the call took the family to the U.S. and kept them hopping from way station to way station. Young Wilfrid, the eternal transfer student, felt like a newspaper tossed on a lawn. Not even when he was struck by polio at the age of 1 3 did his parents slow down their perpetual motion...
...breast generates envy of the mother's power, and the appearance of a rival--the father or a sibling--can result in jealousy as the infant perceives that the third party is responsible for the withdrawal of the mother's attention. Friday feels that her rivalry with her older sister for her mother's affection fits Klein's description. "I couldn't get my mother's attention no matter what I did," she says. "No matter how many laurels I won, I was terrified of being left out, and the word for that, I now see, is jealousy...