Word: woman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...several names and many shadowy occupations and absences. His enemies are, of course, corrupt officialdom and bourgeois smugness. His story is told by Victor, the boy he says he won at backgammon, or maybe chess -- the tale shifts with the passing years. Along with the wraithlike woman who is the Captain's unlikely grand passion, Victor is the chief beneficiary of a shifty, sometimes shiftless man's redeeming devotion. He is also, in the end, the Captain's unwitting Judas. Greene, 84, wastes not a word in distilling the fictional preoccupations of a lifetime, omitting descriptive padding and elaborate transitions...
Good question, especially since the fair-haired, fair-skinned Malones had identified themselves as white on their first applications. Eventually the twins, now 33, claimed that they did not learn they were black until 1976, when, they say, their mother discovered a sepia photograph of a pale-looking woman she said was their black great-grandmother. Last month, after an investigation of their claim, they were fired...
...Berry, a prosecutor in Orlando. "But blood, semen, uprooted hair, skin under the fingernails of the victim are something else." The information can be so damning that it precipitates a confession. In Tacoma last December, a bus driver pleaded guilty to rape, although the victim, a 57-year-old woman with Alzheimer's disease, does not remember the crime. DNA analysis established that semen on the woman's undergarments belonged to the accused. On the other hand, genetic fingerprinting can be equally powerful in establishing a suspect's innocence...
RECKLESS. Writer Craig Lucas and director Norman Rene (Three Postcards) take a hilarious and moving off-Broadway journey through one woman's bad dream, fantasy or, maybe, truly terrible life...
...This woman is inevitably a figure of fun. In Arvin Brown's perfect production at New Haven's Long Wharf Theater, her blindness becomes a tragic symbol of the willful ignorance of a nation. Tony winner Elizabeth Wilson (Sticks and Bones) is supremely tough-minded and understated. So is the rest of the 24-member cast, notably Charles Keating in the sentimental role of a faded movie star (played by John Barrymore in the 1933 film). This is probably the finest revival of a classic by any U.S. regional theater this year...