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...mother Ruth (Nancy Marchand), an unresigned widow. (Colleen Dewhurst played Ruth for a few performances but withdrew because of a prior commitment.) A fifth woman distinctly jars this ostensibly patrician clan. Dixie Avalon (Dixie Carter) is a breezy, purse-swinging entertainer who has been hired by one of the absent menfolk to sing Oh Promise Me, apparently as a prank. Dixie clearly plans to get cash for her trash...
Young blood is in the wings. The Thayers' long absent and somewhat alienated daughter (Barbara Andres) arrives with her current lover, a divorced dentist (Stan Lachow), and, more important, the dentist's 13-year-old son Billy (Mark Bendo). Billy is parked with the Thayers for a few weeks, and Norman takes a shine to the kid. He teaches him how to fish, and Billy, a bit of a smartass, brushes up Norman's archaic lingo with such modernisms as "suckface" for "to kiss." A brush with death further restores Norman's zest for life...
Despite the festive atmosphere, the nerve-racking suspense that has characterized the final night of Easterns in so many years past was just about absent Saturday evening after the Crimson had virtually sewn up the meet with its performance at the trials earlier...
...propensity for judging matters with a variable measure shows up in the game of Conjugation, which expresses the differing manner in which we treat ourselves, present company, and absent unfortunates...
...road early Thursday morning. He was accompanied by U.S. Trade Negotiator Robert Strauss, Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps and two planeloads of lesser officials, reporters and cameramen-a total of 290, one of the largest entourages ever to follow a foreign dignitary on a tour of the U.S. (notably absent: any Soviet press representative...