Word: dillard
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flashbacks, the two re-create some of the central experiences of a 63-year life together- courtship, childbirth, child rearing, physical decline, death - the homely parabola of existence. Their youngest son Dillard (Keith Carradine) appears. He is a country-music star whose wife has walked out, leaving their two small children with him. He describes her as "the fastest credit card in the South." Dillard asks his mother if she always loved his father. Her flash answer epitomizes the play's categorical imperative: "We was married!" Duty omnia vincit. But after a pause, her further answer shows...
Carradine not only has an ingratiating singing voice, but brings poignance to the unintended rupture of father and son. For Hector, Dillard's preference for guitar playing to farming the land of his daddy and granddaddy is a betrayal, a pain oddly mixed with pride. The old man's reaction is akin to the feelings of an immigrant father who sends a son to college to learn a language and a culture that the two may never share. This blood gap has never been treated more sensitively in an American play...
Frances D. Dillard Waycross...
...applications a day. At any moment, some 60,000 to 80,000 British passports are in the embassy's hands. Boxes and baskets overflow with applications. Harried staff give hurried glances before rubber-stamping approval. Applicants, once thronged inside, now wait mainly outside. Says Visa Unit Chief Diane Dillard: "We have a factory here. It's dehumanizing, demoralizing...
Industry analysts predict that as a result of the weak market, first-quarter earnings, which the companies will begin to release this week, will be down sharply. Said Dillard Spriggs of New York's Petroleum Analysis Ltd. research house: "Virtually every company will be affected by the downturn." Exxon and Mobil are expected to see earnings drop about 25%, while Gulfs earnings may decline more than 40%. Overall, of course, Big Oil will still remain very profitable. Some companies, such as Standard Oil of California, may well show modest increases over first-quarter 1980 profits, which were enormous...