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Betty and Brad have a comfortable suburban home, two kids, a housekeeper, bullfight posters on the wall and multivolumes of Will and Ariel Durant on the bookshelves. They are not happy, a condition that has only fleetingly to do with children or interior decoration. Brad plays around; Betty plays alone...
...hours a day to "work things out," or just "drift." All of us, sad to say, drift with her, back to the early days of her marriage, when she would thread a string from the bedroom to the front door of their little apartment and affix a note for Brad: "Roses are red, violets are blue/ Follow this string to an extra-special screw." Other recollections include birth ("Funny," Betty ruminates, "how you forget the actual pain and power of birth -maybe so you'll try again"), the confession of Brad's first infidelity ("I forgive you," Betty...
...Brad (Jon Cypher) tracks Betty to her motel room and concludes that she is either having an affair or a breakdown. Unequipped to deal with either possibility, he has one stopgap measure: he wants to join up with a clan of swingers and swappers. Betty, usually a glutton for punishment, draws the line. The last scene shows her taking one of the two family cars and heading for an uncertain dawn. That she picks the station wagon with the fake wood paneling on the side to drive off in does not bode well for the future...
...prize-winning pointer has been 6 ft. 7 in. junior Rollin Chippey. Chippey is averaging 14 points per game and eight rebounds. He will be joined up front by 6 ft. 4 in. Steve Switchenko, who is hitting at an 11-point clip, and 6 ft. 6 in. Brad Berger. The backcourt is led by Jim McGuire, the leading charity stripe man in New England...
Eleven different Crimson players tickled the nets in the game. Forward Wayne George, in an outstanding performance, registered a hat trick and Brad Wilson scored twice...