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...more moving aspects of the production is a recurrent scenario where all four actresses appear as children playing in a wasteland. As the plot develops, the games they invent provide a painful reflection on the relationships between the adult characters. The children representing Jackie and her illegitimate daughter Rosie, for example, become blood sisters. Yet Rosie's comment "You can never lie to me now" has already been disproven by Jackie's inability throughout the play to reveal herself as her mother...

Author: By Tilly Franklin, | Title: At Emerson Stage, A Good Mother | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...describes his hometown An urban wasteland in the middle of nothing...

Author: By Jmaes SCOTT Curry, | Title: FM Profiles | 11/4/1993 | See Source »

...shots of flowing lava, deserts and snow drifts suggest a wasteland, presumably Siberia, that, accompanied by haunting music, add to the sense of the impending doom of the love affair. The bizarre sequences involving a flying man form a stark contrast to the jovial musical scenes and make the film a surreal montage rather than a generic documentary...

Author: By Natasha H. Leland, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Garden of Scorpions' a Generic 1950s Romance, Russian-Style | 10/7/1993 | See Source »

...course was there any tension over who would control the remote. Today, however, a spouse is expected to be not only a co-provider and mate, but a co-parent, financial partner, romantic love object, best friend, fitness adviser, home repair-person and scintillating companion through the wasteland of Sunday afternoons. This is, rationally speaking, more than any one spouse can provide...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Burt, Loni and Our Way of Life | 9/20/1993 | See Source »

...Since the 1970s, they have increasingly become just giant warehouses where you pack convicts to suffer. Look around me in this place. It's a graveyard, a human wasteland of old men -- most of them just sitting around waiting to die. Of the 5,200 inmates here, 3,800 are lifers or serving sentences so long they will never get out. America has embraced vengeance as its criminal-justice philosophy. People don't want solutions to crime, they only want to feel good. That is what politicians are doing, they're making people feel secure. They offer them a platter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wilbert Rideau, A Convict's View: People Don't Want Solutions | 8/23/1993 | See Source »

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