Word: southern
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ames, as the mother, Amanda Wingfield, bursts as gloriously as the jonquils that send her into raptures. Amanda is a withered Southern belle, ever unquiet about her lost life on the plantation, regaling the tressed-up, padded-bosom, stuck-smile days of her girlhood. Amanda lives in a cocoon of memories, deceiving herself about plans for the future, acting out an existence that is worse than old-fashioned--it is dead. She sparkles beautifully, like a jewelled kinetoscope, cascading through the same wistful images at the drop of a penny-word. Amanda mothers her children, Tom and Laura, with...
Ames is a small, beautiful woman who proctors freshmen when she is not acting. She appeared delightfully last year as the gum-chewing, breast-swinging hussy in How to Succeed in Business but she outdoes herself as Amanda. She sings her lines in a sliding Southern melody of speech, seducing with blue eyes and a wary but blooming smile. With a few early words, she captures at once Amanda's aging person but equally as well evinces her bubbling, sometimes annoying childlike penchant for story-telling...
...touch. The lighting was properly dim, but the frequent blackouts for scene changes were too stark, too sudden, t.v.-like, often disturbing the sense of a flow of dream images. Finally, Williams' script calls for fiddle music at the beginning and end of the play, framing it in a Southern, story-telling manner but also providing an old-fashioned whine, a tug into the heart of this play and a sorrowful serenade at the finish. There is sometimes a brusqueness to this production that contrasts with the warmth and intimacy of the play...
...largest concentration of Iranian students is in the West and Southwest, where they often study engineering and petroleum-related subjects. The percentage of Iranians at some schools is surprisingly high. At Texas Southern University there are 900 Iranians out of a student body of 10,000. At the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, an enrollment of 28,000 includes 900 Iranians. Woodbury University in Los Angeles has 700 Iranians among 1,400 students...
...deal with the future of South Africa is the way we started to deal with it, namely, to allow each proud people-Zulus, Xhosas, Sesothos-to achieve their self-determination and independence from South Africa. When you have arrived at that stage, you can bring together a constellation of southern African states working together on common interests. South Africa is not changing its policy to satisfy our critics. South Africa is developing in the way it is because we believe that by doing this, we shall become a constellation of states strong enough to withstand Communism...