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...plateful on the ground: "Eat that, white bitch!" She has a child by a black laborer (Dennis Haysbert) who walks out on her. She moves in with a pair of religious-fanatic spinsters who try to take away her baby. Later, bitter and near a breakdown, she is thrown into a mental institution full of raving loonies out of The Snake...
...John Tillinger's intimate, immaculate staging, The Last Yankee plays like a last contrition -- with a bit of sermon thrown in. Miller has been in the pulpit so long that he can't completely shake the preacher's jeremiad cadences from his voice, even when he wants to whisper. When Leroy says, "Maybe I am a failure, but in my opinion no more than the rest of this country," his private anguish is being overrun by Miller's political agenda, like a radio sonata interrupted by a campaign commercial...
...lewd behavior was not illegal. The university then banned nudity. Martinez persisted, until some female students charged that his behavior constituted sexual harassment. That did it. "Yes, we're a bastion of free expression," a university spokesman explained. "But first and foremost we're a bastion of higher education." Thrown out of school, Martinez plans to write a book about his experience...
According to Saenger's roommate, Cecilia Gonzalo '96, the car was accelerating toward Mass. Ave. from a parking space on Quincy Street when it hit Saenger and carried her several feet. Gonzalo said Saenger was thrown from the car when the driver, an elderly man, applied the brakes...
Pickman and her fiancee were crossing the Cambridge Common in a sleigh more than 100 years ago. When the horse suddenly panicked, the two were thrown from the sleigh. Pickman's fiancee, his neck broken, died in her arms...