Word: brides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SUITE is a ride through a tunnel of fun, flecked with a recognition of life's unfunny truths. In three playlets, Neil Simon hawks almost uninterrupted laughter, particularly in a sly satire of the Sunset Strip set, and a flailing farce about the father of a most reluctant bride...
Folk Singer-Pacifist Joan Baez, 27, got married last week in a ceremony that was as much a demonstration of dissent as a plighting of troth. The lucky man was David Harris, 22, ex-president of the Stanford student body who, like his bride, did time in jail after participating in last winter's antidraft demonstrations in Oakland; Harris is also under indictment for refusing induction into the armed forces...
Afterward, everybody stood up and sang gospel songs. But true to the spirit of the occasion, there was little time for a honeymoon. At week's end bride and bridegroom resumed a campus tour protesting the Viet...
...about the level of Period of Adjustment. The three characters who constitute the cast are scarcely well adjusted. Lot (Brian Bedford) has come home to the Delta to claim the decayed house and rich land bequeathed to him by his mother. He brings with him his two-day bride, a jittery ex-showgirl named Myrtle (Estelle Parsons), without having told her that they will confront his half brother Chicken (Harry Guardino). He is partially of Negro blood, and has lived in the house and slavishly farmed the land for years...
...government insisted that the bride must leave the country, but Armed Forces Commander Alfredo Ovando promised that she could return to see her husband. "Let her go somewhere to wait for a while," Ovando told the French consul, "but not too far up north." By which he meant, of course, not to Cuba...