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Good talk, whether in Charleston salon or Key West saloon, is a staple of Southern life-but only a reflection of it. Southerners actively stalk pleasure in all its forms with the avidity of a Yankee conglomerator bent on making billions. The gentle climate, only slightly exaggerated by Sir Walter, woos people from TV tube and typewriter to putter and put-put, field and stream. Southerners spend little time commuting to work, and recreation areas are almost everywhere close at hand. Nearly 30% of all the hunting and fishing licenses issued in the U.S. are bought by Southerners; hunters alone...
...jobs that rarely encompass more than a step in a production sequence or a repetition of services. And they work indoors, besides. For these millions, the meshing of one's hand with nature's rhythms and whimsies to produce a delicious melon or a crunchy celery stalk is proving to be a renewing experience...
Occasionally a playwright comes along to chalk up the score all over again. David Rabe did it with visceral force in Sticks and Bones, a play in which the hero is at peace only with the skeletons who stalk his mind. Medal of Honor Rag is a slighter drama argued like a legal brief rather than felt like a wound...
...wind felt over the earth, loosened the dust, and carried it away . . . The finest dust did not settle back to earth now, but disappeared into the darkening sky . . . The corn fought the wind with its weakened leaves until the roots were freed by the prying wind and then each stalk settled wearily sideways toward the earth...
BLACK-CLAD DEVILS hang from a lattice-like set, the Seven Deadly Sins stalk the stage holding papier mache animal masks and a blueleotarded Good Angel sits perched on a platform above a placarded face that radiates heavenly sincerity. It's an impressive spectacle, a testament to the superb technical direction that characterizes the Leverett House Arts Society's production of Doctor Faustus. Unlike most Houses, Leverett has its own theatre, and director Evangeline Morphos has made the most of its facilities, skillfully transforming the entire room into a three-dimensional world where the forces of evil clash colorfully with...