Word: cousinly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...major success of the evening is due to a dynamic and powerful performance by Robert J. Lurtsema as Eddie Carbonne, the Italian longshoreman. When Eddie allows two of his wife's immigrant cousins who have entered the country illegally to stay in his home until they get settled, the younger cousin, Rudolpho, falls in love with Eddie's niece, Catherine, whom he has raised with over-protective care. When Rudolpho, who enjoys singing, sewing, and cooking, as well as working on the piers, is accused by Eddie of being a homosexual seeking to marry only for his citizenship papers...
Dana Bate is excellent as Marco, the older cousin, making the most of what could be a very colorless part. Francesca Solana has her moments as the niece, but she is frequently shrill and overly intense. She is at her best in her quieter moments. Margery Ziskind is unconvincing as the wife, Frank Langella also has his moments, but generally his characterizations is overdrawn...
...friends. Michael Borane, 65, of Phoenix, Ariz., who had not been back to Beirut since he left at eight, doggedly set out to find his father's old house in the almost totally rebuilt Ras Beirut section, finally knocked at the right door, was greeted by a joyous cousin who reported later: "I couldn't speak, and I couldn't feel anything except the hairs rising on my arms...
...graciousness is under pressure, she soon discovers. Her father, silver-haired Preston Woodcock III. is juggling martinis instead of balancing the family paper company's books. Her mother is outwardly butter-smooth, inwardly alum-bitter. Her cousin Woody is an effeminate dandy swooning before his hi-fi set, while sister Peggy is briskly infighting for some stock proxies to oust another cousin who "robbed us of damned near every red cent we own!" The Adam in this snaky Garden of Eden is Peggy's husband Barney Callahan. a morosely charming outlander (Massachusetts Irish) who convinces the troubled Barbara...
...more than half Libya's annual budget. Rumors rife in Libya of local mismanagement of allied funds are small encouragement to pull out U.S. technicians and let the Libyans spend away on their own. Most of the charges of corruption swirl about a fringe-bearded son of a cousin of King Idris' known as the Black Prince, whose SASCO construction company is currently building a $7,000,000 road that starts 200 miles east of Tripoli and meanders 300 miles through the empty desert to the Sebha oasis...