Word: beasley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rituals: a "purification" by holy water and a "communion" of bread and wine. Finally the couple fastened blue ribbons around each other's heads-his with a gold medallion representing the sun, hers with a silver crescent symbolizing the moon-and jumped over a broomstick. With that, John Beasley, 26, and his wife Donna, 22, two chiropractors from Marietta, Ga., were declared man and wife...
...Deborah Rush makes Dot into a squeaky-voiced ninny. Robert Sevra's singing voice is a bit too strained for the fickle-hearted Tom. As up-and-coming composer Sid, Doyle Newberry is fittingly earnest, but (like most real composers) he isn't much of a singer. Russ Beasley is stiff as Sam Herzig, a producer, but he looks like any producer's dream of a handsome, mustachioed matinee idol. And Carl Nicholas brings a welcome touch of the old country to the German-born beer-garden owner...
...Duchess; when last seen, she was on her way to hang-glide off Big Sur, Calif. Swaggering down the aisle, belching and downing a beer at the same time, is Rick, the ex-football bruiser turned singles-bar cruiser. Sitting in the front row is his natural enemy, Mrs. Beasley, the perfect housewife from Calumet City, Ill. Mrs. Beasley's brain is a pincushion of anxiety. "These days it's not enough for a housewife to be loving and neat as a pin," she frets. "We must be creative. There are some things you can make so cleverly...
...source of constant irritation to her is what she believes is the repressed body language of women in her audiences. "I see these very stiff, inhibited women who move and act so much like my character Mrs. Beasley, and I think it's criminal. This is what the culture has done to a lot of women-made them so uptight, so uncertain, so thwarted. It's a matter of power and powerlessness...
Harris, 52, was raised in Mattoon, Ill. Her father was a railroad dining-car waiter, her mother a schoolteacher. She graduated summa cum laude from Howard University in 1945. Moving to Washington in 1949, she later married William Beasley Harris, now an administrative-law judge for the Federal Maritime Commission (they have no children). With her husband's encouragement, she completed George Washington University Law School in 1960. She was first in her class...