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Palm, a graduate student in English and a former volleyball star at Yale, changed a limping offense to a successful Olympic-style 6-0 game-controlling strategy where three front court men set to the three front court men for the spike and the point...
EQUUS. The bizarre saga of a boy who blinds six horses with a metal spike. Galvanically theatrical, albeit specious in substance. The boy (Peter Firth) and his psychiatrist (Anthony Hopkins) give performances in the megaton range...
...Equus, it is the Old Adam and night, and six horses are wheeling in terror. They have been blinded by a 17-year-old boy wielding a metal spike. Spurred by this lacerating image, Peter Shaffer has fashioned a galvanizing psychological thriller...
...abandoned by their regular teacher, a white Peace Corps dropout who thought he would find urban education "more meaningful." When he failed to reach the students, he had become bitter and turned against them. "Some of those teachers could make kids feel dumb without saying anything," another Stalvey son, "Spike," explained to his mother. "And they kind of got across the idea to the rest of us that black kids were bad except for a few. After a while, teachers acted like those slow kids weren't even there...
...Stalvey children-Spike, 18, Noah, 15, and Sarah, 14-are still in Philadelphia's public schools (Spike, in fact, the only white student in all but one of his classes), and Lois Stalvey still clings to hope for the inner-city schools. Like a militant black mother with whom she sided years ago, she believes that the schools need "white hostages" to keep from going under completely. But she is far from confident that even that can save the black students. "Why bother moving children's bodies around to achieve integrated education," she asks, "if like the black...