Word: honeymooner
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...Neil Simon script is blessedly free of the frenetic banter of his plays. The plot, taken from Bruce Jay Friedman's short story, A Change of Plan, is a bright comic idea: a man on his honeymoon falls in love with another woman. Lenny Cantrow (Charles Grodin), a sporting goods salesman in New York, marries a sweetly vacuous girl named Lila Kolodny (Jeannie Berlin). The wedding is small, echt New York Jewish, with folding chairs in a rented hotel room and piped-in music featuring a recognizable and wildly inappropriate soft-drink jingle...
...honeymoon in Miami Beach, Lila does little things that start by vaguely irritating her new husband and end by giving him long second thoughts. She talks constantly about what their life will be like after 50 years of marriage, craves chicken salad and postcoital Milky Ways and, on her first day in the sun, bakes herself to a fearful incarnadine. She spends the next couple of days in the hotel room, time enough for Lenny to fall wildly in love with a snippy blonde from Minnesota named Kelly Corcoran (Cybill Shepherd...
Nixon's final flurry of legislative vetoes, ostensibly to check federal spending, makes a second-term honeymoon with Congress highly unlikely. Despite Nixon's huge win, each elected legislator feels that he, too, has earned a mandate of his own. Too often Nixon was either overantagonistic toward Congress or blithely aloof concerning the fate of his legislation; he sorely needs to improve on his 1972 record of winning only 65% of the votes on which he took a clear stand (the lowest percentage since President Eisenhower's record in 1960) and on his taking such a position on only...
...monsters" who "screech like apes." Now, apparently, he has found an old-fashioned girl to marry: Mihoko Hatashin, 44, a war widow. Said Mihoko: "We can now communicate with each other by eyes, though we don't talk to each other much." The couple's expected honeymoon site: Guam...
Moreover, by late August, when black pols were woodshedding around the country to assess their situations and map strategy for the coming campaigns, the honeymoon of the marriage between blacks and McGovern was unquestionably over. Louis Stokes expressed the feeling of many: "We've been screwed again...