Word: hero
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MacDonald, the hero of Minnesota's spanking...
...sharp-witted, courtly man who tends toward diffidence, Havel seems an unlikely folk hero. He was the son of a well-to-do builder and restaurateur, and his early years were filled with governesses and chauffeurs. With the Communist takeover in 1948, the family's wealth became an albatross. Havel was denied the opportunity to attend high school or college. While working as a taxi driver and then in a brewery, he pursued his writing and in 1963 saw his first play, The Garden Party, mounted in Prague. In April 1968 Havel traveled to New York to see the Public...
...produced a new star, actress Ivy Austin. She plays Gloria, big-city girl, . whose boyfriend (as she confesses endlessly to her hairdresser) wants her to give up everything (a shoe-box apartment), move to Seattle and marry him. Keillor says that when he started to write the script, his hero was a plucky male writer who moved to Manhattan, but Gloria, the archetypal tough, yearning New York woman, muscled in and took over...
Life is sweet in Willy Loman's front yard. Willy is a top-notch traveling salesman, his son Biff is an up-and-coming high school football hero, and his wife and second son stand basking in the warmth of their American Dream. It's too bad we have to go inside...
...character's exchanges with his brother Happy (John Ducey). But Javerbaum is most convincing when it counts, and scenes between Willy and Biff convey all the stifling agony of their relationship. Javerbaum is also especially skillful in handling Biff's striking shift from a hopeful high school football hero to a disillusioned, directionless 34-year-old who feels cheated by his father's hypocritical expectations...