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Dressed in his carefully tailored corduroys, Canada's Pierre Elliott Trudeau moved with an athlete's swift stride to the luncheon table at Blair House during the final hours of his courtesy call on Neighbor Jimmy Carter...
...pondered the lessons from Thucydides and Macaulay, that all countries must finally change. Just then his young wife Margaret entered the room, fresh and smiling from a walk in the sunlight. With her at his side and with Friend Jimmy Carter's exhortations ringing in his ears, Pierre Elliott Trudeau headed back into the fray...
...duties to rate her own East Wing office. She meets there each morning with her 18-member staff, including Press Secretary Mary Finch Hoyt, to discuss plans for upcoming state dinners-on Feb. 14 for Mexican President Jose Lopez Portillo and on Feb. 21 for Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. She wants to help promote the flagging Equal Rights Amendment and plans to get involved in mental-health activities...
Next there is an intellectual (Laurence Luckinbill) who, in a fury of last-minute creativity, is working on bits of poems and novels. He has a homosexual lover (Mandy Patinkin) who is desolated, and a stand-up lush of an ex-wife (Patricia Elliott) whose sassy words rain mockery on all. Finally there is a cranky old biddy (Geraldine Fitzgerald) who will not go gently into any night. Her slavishly devoted daughter (Rose Gregorio) fears that all meaning in her own life will slip away with her mother...
Holly Stevens is no Elliott Roosevelt, leaping in where Freud would fear to tread. But she does not shun legitimate speculation: Stevens' oblique, sensuous references and metaphors "bear deeply on a sexual relationship that may have some resemblance to that of my par ents, regardless of whatever literary connotations may be brought to it." Miss Stevens is at her best describing the physical and intellectual ventures of her father - the failed newspaper reporter, the awkward courtier, the relentless reader and overheated connoisseur of painting and music. As for the public burgher, he too is shown in seedling form...