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WESLEY IS PISSING on his sister's 4-H diagrams of how to carve a broiled chicken. Emma, in a fit of anger, throws empty tin cans at the farmhouse because her mother took the broiler out of the freezer and ate it. Their father, Weston, came home drunk last night and broke down the front door. Ella, the mother, stands wearily in the kitchen and wonders, "What kind of a family is this...
Shepard has the gift of language, which rescues the sledgehammer style of his message. The slang tumbles across the stage like a wild Western river, thoughts as big as the countryside: "You look like forty miles of rough road," says Weston to his son. The frontier reduces life to its primal elements, revealing raw humanity, a force as powerful and perverse as the worthless farm the characters inhabit...
...Weston went west to grab his share of the American Dream. He has a plot of land all his own--he walks through the house nude to experience the joy of ownership--two old cars, a chunk of desert land sold to him by a con man, and more debt than he can handle. The dream turns into the nightmare, Weston turns into a drunkard, and the refrigerator stands empty...
...heard from people in Weston and suburbs as far away as Manchester, N.H.," Matthew H. Rubin '62-4, the station's technical director, said. "They used to have to tune us in very carefully and the reception was scratchy. Now it's strong and clear," he added...
Said Chief Medical Examiner James Weston: "Virtually every one of the bodies had overkill, which is to say that there was more than mob hysteria. There was rage." Added Dr. Marc Orner, the psychologist at the prison: "None of us really understands what happened in there...