Word: sonly
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...Gelman's son Ezra Salop, another student on the trip, was able to corroborate their account for the Post...
...Fifteen years ago I killed my sister." Much of Adam Rapp's Nocturne, now playing at the American Repertory Theater, is as stark as this line. The work is essentially a symphony on the theme of these words. The nameless Son is a humdrum high school student when he accidentally runs over his nine year old sister with a car. He is plucked out of obscurity to occupy the foreground of a blood red stage, where he speaks for two hours on the topic of his sister, his family and his dissatisfaction with life in general, interrupted sporadically by dialogue...
Even though there is a narrative, the play is mainly a study of a diseased mind. The Son thinks in music. He is a child prodigy at the piano, and his musings flit around the tones of baseball bats, humming power lines and clicking typewriters. But he becomes disillusioned with music after the accident. The piano is a lifeless manifestation of the comfortable suburban lifestyle that is wrecked forever...
...Son turns to words to replace musical notes. He unrelentingly assaults the ear with precise metaphors, dissecting every aspect of his dead sister: her body, her dress and her words. He floods every part of his life with pregnant description. The flow does not stop even when his father, in a post-accident moment of rage, sticks a gun in the Son's mouth. The only things immune to his touch are the names of the players themselves: the whole time it is only Son, Father, Mother and Daughter. Family members are the rocks upon which the Son's fragile...
...Missouri governor Mel Carnahan is assumed dead after a plane carrying him and a top adviser and piloted by Carnahan's son Randy crashed Monday night in the rainy Missouri woods about 30 miles south of St. Louis. Carnahan was on the way to a campaign stop in New Madrid, Mo., in the midst of a hotly contested race to unseat conservative Republican senator John Ashcroft in a race considered crucial to the future balance of the Senate. (Ashcroft's campaign immediately pulled all its advertising in deference to the tragedy...