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...into the darkest prison.' So I stayed. When my breasts started growing at 13, she beat me across the chest until I fainted. Then she'd hug me and ask forgiveness. When I turned 16, a day didn't pass without my mother calling me a whore, and saying that I'd end up in Potter's Field, dead, forgotten and damned for all eternity. Most kids have nightmares about being taken away from their parents. I would sit on our front stoop, crooning softly of going far, far away to find another mother. "What...
...David Schramm), the boss of Steeltown, U.S.A., is a cigar-chomping tyrant, and his gutsy prole of a foe, Larry Foreman (Randle Mell), is a knight in blue-collar armor. We meet Mister's toadies: mousy Reverend Salvation, sycophantic College President Prexy and craven Editor Daily. As a whore with a heart of tarnished nickel, Lisa Banes is achingly vulnerable, and Michele-Denise Woods keens a militant lament for her injured brother in Joe Worker Gets Gypped...
Only a troupe of mature actors could succeed in arousing and then sustaining the audience's attention for the 10 scenes and this group does so by making each scene equally as powerful as the others. Each actor develops his own persona, which Schnitzler has broadly classified as whore (Carolone Isenberg), soldier (Tim Banker), parlour maid (Holley Stewart), young gentleman (Benjamin Cobb), young wife (Anne Higgins), husband (Jonathan Magaril), sweet young thing (Debbie Wasser), poet (Alek Keshishian), actress (Amy Brenneman), actress (Amy Brenneman), and Count (Paul O'Brien...
...infancy she is left alone to play in the dirt outdoors. In childhood she becomes the butt of her Christian schoolmates. As the Nazis approach, Tzili is abandoned by her parents. She seeks shelter among the peasants in the district, claiming to be the daughter of the local Gentile whore. But if she is spared deportation as a Jew, she is execrated as one of the devil's brood. "The peasants drove her mercilessly. She cleaned the cow shed ... brought firewood from the forest. At night the peasant's wife would mutter: 'You know who your mother...
...tragedy and disappointment. At the end of the story, Reva meditates by the lock house in which she and Clinton made love: "Upstream, a deer's hoof sucked in the soft mud, but Reva kept watching the swimming moon-the same moon she knew Clinton watched with his cincinnate whore. "She realizes the hopelessness of her desires, and sets fire to the lockhouse in an act of despair and rejection...