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...Apple Tree is based on three stories by Mark Twain, Frank R. Stoekton and Jules Feiffer, but any trace of these authors' original intent has been systematically expunged in the adaptation by Jerry Bock and Sheldon Hamick. The first segment. "The Diary of Adam and Eve," describes the problems of setting up the world's very first household. These problems, however, are in significant when compared to Eve's (Debby Rayson's) inability to find a register in which her troublesome voice will be content to stay. Eve weasels her way into Adam's hut, and finally into his heart...
...reached this point is not difficult to trace...
...pride in the Chicano heritage. One series of 19 murals, called "The Story of Our Struggle," show's events from Mexico's loss of the Southwest in 1848 to a present-day farm unionist cutting the chains that bind a fallen comrade. So well does the series trace the rise of chicanismo that elementary school classes are brought to study the murals as part of their history lessons...
LIKE THE YOUNG girl trapped in the sunrise-to-sunset rituals and routines of summer camp, all of Johanna Kaplan's characters try to trace out an existence apart from the tangle of personalities whose lives never quite mesh with their own. Success is not a shared feature of their struggle; it's too easy to opt for an extreme solution, to let one's inner life give way to silent partnership in other people's fantasies, or, worse, to protect against this kind of dissolution by erecting a rock-like barrier between oneself and the world--a barrier proofed...
...subscribed to "hundreds of newspapers and magazines." The senior McWhirter may have been the most compulsive swallowers of information of his time--though Ross says he simply needed to "know the opposition"--but it is to such humble eccentricities that the authors of the Guinness Book of World Records trace its origin. From an early age the growing twins clipped useless information from the papers. "We kept lists of the largest buildings, that sort of thing." Ross says...