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...Neighbors, situations can always get worse, and funnier. Beeler's son Tony, a nearsighted weight lifter, defends his mother's honor by slugging a rude Millville cop. This, in turn, makes it more difficult for Tony to court Eva, Bullard's buxom 13-year-old daughter. Bullard's nasty son Junior gets hold of Cousin Rev's pistol and is transformed into a menacing big shot ("It was funny how carrying a gun made you feel as if you were dreaming"). In Hornbeck, Beeler's daughter Bernice comes home from the big city bragging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Millvillers and Hornbeckers | 5/23/1983 | See Source »

...Siberia, USSR, Lake Baikal, one fifth of the world's fresh water. Bread and cheese, Woods, wooden houses; ruddy hardware men, kerchiefed, buxom women. Stand at window and remember India. Read prize-winning Chinese short stories, i.e., train ticket-seller turns over new leaf and saves future sister-in-law's life by having memorized connecting bus schedules. Francine shows off Nanjing University bug life preserved in naphthalene and film boxes...

Author: By Sylvia C. Whitman, | Title: A Trans-Siberian Journey | 11/8/1982 | See Source »

...PIELMEIER has taken a stand against reason in a more immediately disturbing manner: his Dr. Livingstone cannot compare with the two nuns. Cold, neurotic, self-righteous, she has none of the appeal possessed by the waiflike Agnes and the buxom, comfortable Mother Miriam. It seems no accident that this play, unlike most concerned with the conflict between faith and reason, plumps squarely for faith and leaves its audience with a neatly-wrapped package, for faith and leaves its audience with a neatly-wrapped package, satisfied that a decision has been reached and a conclusion obtained...

Author: By Deborah K. Holmes, | Title: A Cloistered View | 3/2/1982 | See Source »

Michael Rapposelli as Ma Belle, mother of the English noble hero nearly stops the show each time he opens his mouth. He plays the buxom mom (this year, it's Mae-West-Goes-to-Brooklyn), and Rapposelli milks the show's best part for all it's worth. What's more, his stage presence carries over to his singing, with a superb voice that resounds throughout his all-too-infrequent songs...

Author: By Jeffrey R. Toobin, | Title: A French Quiche | 2/25/1982 | See Source »

...head open when he slips in an immense puddle of it, the product of the poor woman supervisor whose arteries the Shape has skillfully tapped. He just keeps coming, walking through thick glass doors, bullet after bullet pumped into him. On his way to the hospital he spies a buxom cheerleader type on her porch and takes a quick detour: the slaughter in this movie is Pavlovian...

Author: By David B. Edelstern, | Title: More Merriment | 11/25/1981 | See Source »

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