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August Wilson's "Fences" provocatively delineates main events in the life of a black family in the 1950s. The success of the production stems primarily from the excellent lead, Shannon Bryant '99, who plays Troy Maxson, a garbage collector whose race foils his dreams of playing major league baseball. Fortunately, the supporting characters also hold their...
...plot concerns the trials and tribulations of a black lower-middle-class family in 1957. The play revolves around three themes: sports, death and (not surprisingly) the image of fences. Sports provides a major point of contention in the family. Troy's son Corey (Dahni-El Giles '99) wants to play football and win a scholarship to college. But Troy was discriminated against while playing baseball when he was younger and his bitterness clouds his dealings with...
...Troy's other obsession involves death: Even from the opening scene he tries to deny its inevitability. Ultimately, death pervades his whole life, first through his mistress's death and eventually...
...sportswriter, usually covers pampered, overpaid athletes. At last week's Westminster Kennel Club show, however, he found himself covering some pampered athletes of another species. As Wulf watched a Gordon setter and a Brittany spaniel finish one-two among sporting dogs, he found himself reliving childhood memories of Troy, New York, where his family kept two dogs--a Gordon setter named Beau and a Brittany named Brill. "They were like George and Lennie from Of Mice and Men," remembers Wulf. "Brill was a small but brilliant hunting dog. Beau was big and not very bright; he always seemed...
...Cowboys, but made it a perfect nine-for-nine at Ericsson Stadium. Michael Irvin, the Cowboys' troubled star and go-to receiver, got a game's worth of alibi when he went down with a fractured collarbone on Dallas' first possession. The Carolina defense did the rest, intercepting Troy Aikman twice in the fourth quarter and holding Emmit Smith to 80 yards on 22 carries as they allowed only six points in the second half, to set up their playoff game against Green Bay. In a fog-bound game at Foxboro, the "Blitzburgh" Steelers saw the frenzied defense that...