Word: bains
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ante. The scene is now the neo-Honeymooners apartment of Celia and her husband Phil (Simon Oakland), a retired master sargeant. Swede (Conrad Bain), an old army buddy, has just arrived and the two men are up to their elbows in cans of beer and talk of the army, the fights and other things that generally just aren't what they once used to be. Celia, a childless, tired woman, her hair--as described by her own mother--a gaudy "change-of-life red," tries to force the conversation to include herself. She gossips about the neighbors, laments the marriage...
...attracting tourists to a bathing spa. Dr. Stockmann (Stephen Elliott), the spa medical adviser, discovers that the town's waters are polluted. Stockmann assumes that his brother Peter, the mayor (Philip Bosco), will start an immediate cleanup. Peter adamantly refuses. The doctor believes that a liberal publisher (Conrad Bain) and his crusading editor (David Birney) will print the truth. They turn against him. He tries to rally the populace and is reviled as An Enemy of the People. At play's end, the town is morally polluted by the fraud it has elected to live...
...CHOPIN once rescued us from having a flood in the bathroom.... I was sitting quietly working with Chopin when suddenly he stopped giving me music and appeared to be quite agitated. He started speaking in French. Eventually I realized that he was saying: 'Le bain va etre engloutie.' I rushed to the bathroom... the water was just about to come over...