Word: dad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years old, but he has already learned something about making news. On the presidential plane The Spirit of '76 with his father, Henry Kissinger, and White House Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler, he heard the inevitable newsmen ask the inevitable question: "When are we going to China?" When Dad did not answer, David helped out. "You're going in March, aren't you?" he piped up. That was news of the first magnitude, and Master David was quickly whisked back to his seat, where Ziegler asked him where he had got his information. On the radio, replied David...
...David Rabe's, Harriet (Elizabeth Wilson) is one of those mothers who likes to think that she only "lives for others"-as selflessly as a vampire bat. David's younger brother Rick (Cliff DeYoung) pops in and out of the house with a vacuous "Hi Mom, hi Dad; bye Mom, bye Dad" that might be a recorded announcement. At the still center of this air-conditioned hell stands David, graver than a Greek chorus in his comments, with the memory-made-visible of the Vietnamese girl (Asa Gim) he had once loved. She glides through the rooms...
...best, partly because other artists avoided the plight of the "normal" person altogether. The poetry and novels of the post-war period are filled with madmen and dropouts but with few members of the overwhelming nine-to-five majority. Only the playwright has generally found his material in Mom & Dad & Bud & Sis living next door in seeming content with the system, and he has made it his business to expose all the fears and contradictions that lie underneath the complacent enjoyment of material wealth. His method of exposure is almost always the same: the introduction of some moral dilemma into...
...explanation for his son's absence. While Laurent is still standing in awkward silence, his mother enters, sizes up the situation with a glance, and begins to look upset over the impending battle. But the brothers can't keep from chuckling at Laurent's embarrassment, Mom smiles, and finally Dad's anger melts as they all join in laughing together...
...addition, there is an analytical undercurrent. An archtypal figure is being formed: the good soldier. He smiles a lot, not perturbed by his compromises, which he is told are necessary. He sees no contradiction between his life styles outside the army and in (says Dad: "come out a man, son"); he is, in fact, able to justify his conduct as part of a great chain of American being...