Word: cousin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ambulance Chaser. In East St. Louis, Ill., after being charged with five traffic vilolations for pursuing an ambulance at 70 m.p.h., Julius Moore explained that the driver was his cousin and he wanted to talk...
...sort of balanced cousin of the sicknik comedians, Newhart vaguely follows their technique and style, but delivers his material in quiet, well-scrubbed Midwestern inflections that keep things from toppling over the brink of sanity. As a driving instructor, he maintains classroom calm while he sits in the front seat of a car with a lady who goes 75 in her driveway. As an eager 1904 entrepreneur, he tries to start transcontinental passenger service at once by putting a toilet on the Wright brothers' plane. As a stiff-lipped submarine commander, he tells the crew: "I think our firing...
...inhabitants, who seem like characters from a summery Watteau canvas driven inside by the chill of autumn-but the time is 1960. Dressing up is this family's mildest eccentricity. Beautiful Eleonore is devoted to her husband Hugo, but this has never prevented her from seducing every male cousin who comes to visit. Also, she has a brother who is as fond of her as she is of those cousins. Then there is Hugo's first wife Ophelie; when, years before, he wanted to leave her for Eleonore, Hugo merely arranged a fake funeral for Ophelie and locked...
...plot simmers when the incumbent cousin begins to bore Eleonore. He loves her; he wants to understand her. But she protests: "Do you really think women want to be understood? Women want to be held, you hear me, held. I have nothing to explain. If Hugo learns that I deceive him, he won't try to understand. He'll kill me. He feeds me, he loves me, and he proves it to me evenings." In the play's climax, Eleonore's cousin-lover tries to escape from the snowbound chateau, but in the spring his small...
...ceremonial round of royal family life. Nor does it seem any more possible for Princess Margaret to be transformed into a citizen of Tony's former bohemian world. Meg has only half a dozen formal dates to fill on her calendar, and it is expected that her pretty cousin, Princess Alexandra, will take on more and more of the royal duties that Margaret used to perform...