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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...proletariat, in the person of Grusha, their servant girl. The backdrop is the bloody imbroglio of civil war. Grusha, simply and sincerely portrayed by Brooke Stark, retrieves the governor's child. Michael, who has been left behind in the frenzied exodus from the Village. She protects the baby throughout the conflict, risking her personal safety as well as her love for the soldier Simon (Tony Poole), enduring persecution for the child's sake: her unselfishness is complete. In contrast. Michael's real mother--played in fine, shrill-voiced style by Bethany Tanner--is a petty and uncaring termagant, mostly interested...
...about the stage, doing business with his pipe, playing with a mimed dog, recoiling from a searing tea pot, Hughes gives Da even more life than Leonard wrote into the script. At times, he recalls Uncle Ernie of My Three Sons; at others he is Shakespeare's Falstaff. But throughout, Hughes' twinkly eyes and subtle, vaporous quality make him the perfect embodiment of one of Hugh Leonard's bothersome voices...
INSTEAD UPDIKE plunges us into a scrutiny of the alienated characters. In "Love Song for a Moog Synthesizer," for instance, he binds us in the "spirals of indignation" of a Cub Scout den mother. Throughout the collection of short stories, Updike stalks the problem of human disconnectedness from all imaginable angles, realistically fleshing it out in "Domestic Life in America," abstracting it in his geometric "Problems," sketching a symbolic outline in the opening piece, "Commercial," recasting it as classical tragedy in "Augustine's Concubine." But he refuses to hunt out the solutions in the diseased scenarios. His "maimed and fanatic...
...Throughout the history of the UFW, many tactics have been employed in order to bring its message across not only to U.S. agri-business, but also to the American consumer, the UFW's most consistent ally. Strikes, picket lines, legislative campaigns, and voter registration drives have been among the tactics used, but these have been secondary only to the UFW's most powerful weapon: the consumer boycott...
...only new variation on the old theme Saturday was the field reflected Brown's dampened spirits and added to its woes. With a puddle four inches deep spanning the entire center circle and various other miniature oceans dispersed throughout the field, the conditions were better suited to the Crimson's manager, swimmer Maura Costin. However, Harvard halfback Sara Fischer justified her nickname, "Fish," while teammate Jeanne Piersiak's fancy footwork made Gene Kelly's "Singing in the Rain" routine look like kidstuff...