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Halfway during the first act, August's eccentric, hypochondriac sister Delia Eriksen (Dana Gotleib) comes to live with them. The owner of the house in which they are all staying, the loveable and amusing backwoods hick Chad Jasker (Andrew Pitcher), is also always hanging around. Although there is obvious tension between August and Delia and obvious lust between Chad and Jean, everything is subtle. And for the most part, everyone gets along quite nicely...so nicely, in fact, that the audience is in danger of falling asleep...
...When guests arrive at the parking lot, they are greeted by valets, who carry skis to racks at the base lodges. Lift-line ticket sales are limited to 5,000 a day in order to limit waiting times to five minutes. The resort charges accordingly. Accommodations at the Stein Eriksen Lodge range from $265 to $1,400 a night...
...weeks from now, Ted Eriksen, the Mendocino County, Calif., agricultural commissioner, will publish his annual crop report. It will be seriously in error-not for any lack of meticulousness on Eriksen's part, but because his bosses will not let him mention marijuana...
...last year's report, Eriksen matter-of-factly stated that pot patches provided far more farm income in Mendocino County-he estimated 1979's harvest at $90 million-than any other cultivated crop. Says Eriksen: "I thought it was a realistic thing to do." The county board of supervisors did not: when the smoke cleared, Eriksen had torn the offending page from every copy of his findings and promised never to report on m--a again. So this year, wine grapes will be called the county's biggest agricultural moneymaker. But that is a politician...
...Baughan and Eriksen "are conscientious and keep working for us," Busik said, "they should be able to advance pretty rapidly and do some good for us " He added that "we're trying to abide by the rights that people have in this great country of ours, but they make it difficult sometimes...