Word: yellow
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Society have done justice. The play takes place on a summer day in Colorado in 1910. The main plot is simple: a group of forest rangers, who resemble Dudley Do-Rights more than Ranger Ricks, arrive at Little Mary Sunshine's vacation home in search of the wild Indian Yellow Feather. Of the 17 characters, 14 are romantically involved and the other three are Indians, who are not supposed to have such emotions in 1940-type Hollywood shows...
...spirit of mockery. David Kleeman as Chief Brown Bear is so overly dignified and wooden that he deserves a chair in the Classics Department. Fleet Foot, portrayed by Alan Middleton, is the typical half-blind, half-dead reservation Indian. The best of all, however, is the wild savage Yellow Feather, Adam Ramirez, who lusts after the white flesh of our Little Mary. By giving Besoyan's characters the right amount of schmaltz, the Sunshine Indians help rebut the John Wayne school of frontier history...
...play a direct role in foreign affairs, she did have some contact with Soviet leaders. Leonid Brezhnev she would later describe as "the biggest clown in the world"; Nikita Khrushchev was "a big fool." She was particularly bitter about him because he had talked to foreign statesmen about the "yellow peril...
...Sachenhausen, Buchenwald, and various other Nazi death camps, the inmates were identified by several insignia: Jewish victims wore the tragic yellow star; political prisoners wore a red triangle; green triangles identified the infamous Kapo, criminal trustees who assisted the S.S. guards. Homosexuals wore pink triangles...
...raising the children, it took Marabel a year of "15-minute intervals" to finish Total Woman-"but I knew I had to do it." She read other marriage manuals and collected the sayings of various sages-Socrates, David Reuben, Shakespeare, Dale Carnegie. She scribbled her own views on yellow legal-size paper and then Scotch-taped the pages end to end. Says she: "I was told it should be geared to a fifth-grade reading level. I didn't have to worry about that. I'm a two-syllable person." She had so little