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...Lewis Day, ceremonies in the tiny municipal park were interrupted by a TV station helicopter that zoomed in for a landing near the crowd. Recalls Mayor Marion Woodside: "I thought, Jesus Christ, I hope nobody gets in the way of one of them blades." Shirley Buck, Paul Lewis' aunt and the owner of Buck's Cafe in Homer, has banned the press from her restaurant. Regular customers began staying away for fear of having their meals interrupted by requests for interviews...
Lanford Wilson possesses something that any pol might envy. He controls the wacko constituency-weirdos, crazies and freaks. Fifth of July is a redo of his The Hot l Baltimore, transported to a creaky ancestral house in Lebanon, Mo. Aunt Sally (Mary Carver), wooed and won in Wilson's romantic drama, Talley's Folly, has come back 30-odd years later to scatter her late husband's ashes. On hand are some of the walking wounded of the intoxicant wars...
Refusing to strain the comparison between the three Lowells, Heymann concludes that their styles had limited similarities, outside of each's violent dislike for being compared with the others. Robert Lowell's poem "T.S. Eliot" was the result of a conversation Lowell once had with Eliot about the notorious Aunt...
Betty Friedan, feminist author, after the women's platform victory at the Democratic Convention: "We took on the Establishment, and we made them say 'aunt...
...allowed to proceed. Walter's father, who speaks almost no English, asked: "Am I a drunkard? Do I starve my children? Have I broken any laws? I have not. So who is the Government to take my child?" In defense of young Walter, an aunt, Anastasia Junko of Santa Barbara, Calif., declared that even in the Ukraine the children had never been close to their father, whom friends of the family describe as a strict disciplinarian. Daughter Natalie, who also insists on staying in the U.S., feared that if her brother is "forced to go back, he will...