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The most destructive storm of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season,
Superstorm Sandy smashed ashore on the U.S. East Coast in October
2012 after cutting a path of destruction north from the Caribbean.
Altogether, it has been estimated to have caused more than $68
billion in damage, and killed over 200 people in several countries.
The second-costliest such storm in U.S. history behind only
Hurricane Katrina in 2005 Sandy is reported to have killed at least
117 people in the United States alone, and it caused tremendous
damage along the most populated coastline in the country. As a
result, Sandy generated 144,484 claims under federal flood
insurance coverage under the National Flood Insurance Program
(NFIP). This book begins by laying out how the NFIP claims
management process works, how its various pieces interact, and how
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) attempts to ensure
quality control. It then explores the incentive structures that
face insurance companies, claims processing vendors, adjusters, and
engineers, and the management challenges that confront the NFIP as
it attempts to handle catastrophic flood events.
The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a
comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each
decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips
readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which
work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a
focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture,
media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter
on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough
survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and
developments in response to the economic and political conditions
of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from
the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team
of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and
legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as
interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play
scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major
playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this
volume include: * Tony Kushner: Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia
on National Themes, Part One and Part Two (1991), Slavs! Thinking
About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness (1995) and
A Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds (1997); * Paula Vogel: Baltimore
Waltz (1992), The Mineola Twins (1996) and How I Learned to Drive
(1997); * Suzan-Lori Parks: The Death of the Last Black Man in the
Whole Entire World (1990), The America Play (1994) and Venus
(1996); * Terrence McNally: Lips Together, Teeth Apart (1991),
Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997) and Corpus Christi (1998).
The Decades of Modern American Playwriting series provides a
comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each
decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips
readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which
work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a
focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture,
media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter
on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough
survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and
developments in response to the economic and political conditions
of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from
the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team
of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and
legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as
interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play
scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major
playwrights and their plays to receive in-depth coverage in this
volume include: David Mamet: Edmond (1982), Glengarry Glen Ross
(1984), Speed-the-Plow (1988) and Oleanna (1992); David Henry
Hwang: Family Devotions (1981), The Sound of a Voice (1983) and M.
Butterfly (1988); Maria Irene Fornes: The Danube (1982), Mud (1983)
and The Conduct of Life (1985); August Wilson: Ma Rainey's Black
Bottom (1984), Joe Turner's Come and Gone (1984) and Fences (1987).
The Decades of Modern American Drama series provides a
comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each
decade from the 1930s to 2009 in eight volumes. Each volume equips
readers with a detailed understanding of the context from which
work emerged: an introduction considers life in the decade with a
focus on domestic life and conditions, social changes, culture,
media, technology, industry and political events; while a chapter
on the theatre of the decade offers a wide-ranging and thorough
survey of theatres, companies, dramatists, new movements and
developments in response to the economic and political conditions
of the day. The work of the four most prominent playwrights from
the decade receives in-depth analysis and re-evaluation by a team
of experts, together with commentary on their subsequent work and
legacy. A final section brings together original documents such as
interviews with the playwrights and with directors, drafts of play
scenes, and other previously unpublished material. The major
writers and their works to receive in-depth coverage in this volume
include: * William Inge: Picnic (1953), Bus Stop (1955) and The
Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957); * Stephen Sondheim, Arthur
Laurents and Jerome Robbins: West Side Story (1957) and Gypsy
(1959); * Alice Childress: Just a Little Simple (1950), Gold
Through the Trees (1952) and Trouble in Mind (1955); * Jerome
Lawrence and Robert Lee: Inherit the Wind (1955), Auntie Mame
(1956) and The Gang's All Here (1959).
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Lockset (Paperback)
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Brenda Murphy
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Eugene O'Neill Remembered offers new views into the playwright's
life by capturing the direct memories of those who were close to
him through interviews, memoirs, and other recollections. These
sixty-two remembrances create an unprecedented image of O'Neill.
O'Neill is known principally as the author of some of the most
significant plays in the American dramatic canon and as one of
America's Nobel Laureates in literature. However, O'Neill's life
has long been shrouded in myth. O'Neill rarely gave interviews and
was not forthcoming about the details of his life. He also abetted
some of the misconceptions about his youth by, for example,
advocating the story that he was expelled from Princeton for
throwing a rock through Woodrow Wilson's window or by exaggerating
the amount of time he had spent at sea. The legend of the
hard-drinking, tormented playwright with a grim view of life was
further reinforced when Long Day's Journey into Night was produced
in 1956, three years after his death instead of the twenty-five
years he had insisted on. The portrayal of O'Neill as a tragic
figure has been solidified in a number of biographies. The purpose
of this collection, however, is to present O'Neill as others saw
him and described him in their first-person accounts. In the course
of these reminiscences, many of the vast and various narrators
conflict with and contradict each other. Unlike other accounts of
O'Neill's life, much of the focus is on impressions instead of
facts. The result is a revealing composite portrait of a key figure
in twentieth-century American literary history. This extensive
collection offers insights unavailable in any other book and will
hold massive appeal for scholars and students interested in
American literature, Eugene O'Neill, and theater history, as well
as anyone keen to uncover intimate details of the life of one of
America's greatest writers.
The next time you're in the South, enjoying that famous Southern
hospitality on a covered porch, be sure to look up. You'll see that
most porch ceilings here are often painted Carolina Blue, a color
that is said to chase away evil spirits known as "haints" and also
keeps flying insects at bay. For the Southern girls who grew up on
those porches, it was also where they were schooled in the finer
points of a well-lived life. Porches served many purposes in the
home. On some days, they were gracious outdoor living rooms when
company dropped by. On others, they were a lonely outpost after a
scolding. But most of all, our porches are where we learned the ins
and outs of ladylike behavior; the wonders of linen, cotton, and
other natural fibers to keep us fresh as a daisy on hot Southern
summer days; and the wisdom of remaining polite even when you felt
like exploding all over the place with a sassy comeback to insults
both real and imagined.
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