Word: husbanded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adopted at 14 months and reared in Larchmont, N.Y. When she was eleven, her father committed suicide after losing all his money in the Depression. Frances felt that her mother, a beauty of German Jewish origin with a keen sense of high fashion, betrayed her by "marrying a bad husband for economic security." A competitive child, she captained the basketball team and edited her high school yearbook. Her mother died when she was 18. To support herself, she went to work as a stock girl, eventually graduating to fashion buyer at Lord & Taylor. When Lear learned that her manic-depressive...
Reid Cottingham dominates this bizarre drama as Susan, the troubled title character, who is losing her grip on reality. Susan hates her life. And why shouldn't she? Her husband, Gerald (Mark Brazaitis) is a befuddled priest more interested in his historical study of parish life since 1386 than in sex. Her son Rick (Andrew Ott), who has always been afraid of women, is now a member of a London sect devoted to parent hatred, which doesn't make her feel any better. Aside from the uptight Gerald, her only companion is her antagonistic sister-in-law, an incompetent Cornish...
...surprise that, after a close encounter with a garden rake, Susan develops hallucinations of grandeur. In her imaginary world, her garden is five times bigger and her driveway is ten miles long. Her fantasy husband, Andy, does the cooking, and, "incidentally, loves (her) more than words can say." Her vacuous daughter is talented and beautiful, and appreciates her mother (now a noted author) as Rick never did. Her brother is affable and protective, generously offering his services to dispose of the unappreciative Gerald...
...Murphy, John Ducey and Valerie Mulhern, who play the imaginary husband, brother and daughter respectively get funnier as the show loses its comprehensibility. Their comic timing is especially good in the puppeteer scenes, where these apparitions induce Susan to do their bidding...
...capitalization changes, Hoffmann-La Roche is certain to retain the air of genteel mystery that has long surrounded it. Control will remain in the hands of the Basel-based Sachers. The family, one of Switzerland's leading cultural benefactors, is headed by Maja Sacher, 93, and her second husband Paul, 83. Maja Sacher's first husband, Emanuel Hoffmann, son of the company's founder, died in a car crash in 1932. A prominent patron of modern art, Maja Sacher has endowed Basel's museums with works by 20th century masters. Paul Sacher, an energetic conductor, has sponsored scores by many...