Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tennessee Williams has always made three demands: On himself, to give poetic lie to Nietzsche's dictum that tragedy is dead. On his audiences, to see through his melodramatics to the philosophical skeleton. On his adapters, to preserve the illumination as well as the heat of his intense personal vision...
...vengeful and he is black?"a mistake" claims Jeb, "of my father's." Like two halves of the same soul, the siblings are rivals for the property and the woman, while outside a summer flood seems to threaten all creation. At last Chicken exhumes the ultimate family skeleton, and Jeb, the levee and the film simultaneously collapse...