Word: wilder
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hearth dominates American playwriting. Of the nation's foremost dramatists -- the likes of Thornton Wilder, Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee Williams and the early Edward Albee -- only Arthur Miller has consistently reached out beyond domestic grief to comment on public life. For that aspiration, Miller has often been rebuked and advised to return to family melodrama. Probably no rejection hurt more than the fate of his The American Clock, a poignant panorama of what the 1930s did to the country's psyche; it opened on Broadway in November 1980 and lasted barely two weeks. Miller has not brought a new play...
...LAWRENCE WILDER, Virginia's first black Lieutenant Governor, at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville: "Much has been written about my not being able to attend this university during my time. The fact that my son finished his undergraduate studies here and that my daughter is in this year's graduating class warms me with a poetic and an ironic justice. We have come to see that this country's insistence on right can make a change. It did so in the archipelagoes of the Philippines. It did so with the ravaged despotism in Haiti, and it will and must...
SHALLOW GRAVES: TWO WOMEN AND VIETNAM by Wendy Wilder...
...Polaroids hastily snapped before the mind forgets what it has witnessed: children rioting over candy at a Saigon orphanage; a bar girl singing to a G.I. ("You give me baby./ I give you V.D."). But as the authors pass out their pictures, they also provide moving autobiographies. Wendy Wilder Larsen reconstructs the early '70s from the American point of view; Tran Thi Nga offers a far more unusual perspective. The daughter of a Vietnamese mandarin, she twice became the second wife in polygamous marriages, first to a Chinese general, then to her sister's husband. She managed to escape...
...Forman who directed Cagney in Ragtime, the 1981 film that brought him back into the public eye after two decades of retirement. After completing Billy Wilder's 1961 comedy One, Two, Three, Cagney vowed to quit filmmaking. Content in the company of his wife and a small circle of friends, he divided his time between two farms in the East and a home in Beverly Hills. He dabbled in painting, bred horses and collected antique carriages. But with the help of Cagney's associates, Forman lured the actor out of retirement to play Ragtime's canny police commissioner...