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...sequel of sorts, though Rayona appears only at the end. She's still 15 and untroubled by romance, still living with her crusty Aunt Ida on the reservation in Montana. Her father turns up in the last chapters with a couple of elderly white ladies who are, surprisingly, his Irish-American mother and his aunt. By this time the novel has traced Rayona's tangled lineage from her great-great-grandmother Rose Mannion, a formidable immigrant from Ireland. The author follows a chain of matrimonial disasters involving weak men and angry, churchbound women who wish they had married someone else...
...dressing room last week, Lane, 40, was subdued and a little weary, his voice only occasionally rising to his patented pitch of whiny sarcasm. (Asked about working in the shadow of original Forum star Zero Mostel, he replies with a tart "Who?") Lane grew up in a working-class Irish-American family in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he regularly starred in the plays at St. Peter's Prep. In New York he started building his theater resume, appearing in flops (the Doug Henning musical Merlin) and a few prestige successes (a revival of Noel Coward's Present Laughter starring...
...teamed with Gracie, a young Irish-American actress and dancer, whom he married three years later. At first Burns did the jokes and Allen played it straight, but that was soon corrected. George's indulgent prodding of Gracie's flighty non sequiturs and malapropisms helped make them the most popular male-female comedy act of the century. Burns always credited Allen with being the "genius" and deprecated his own sizable contribution. "There's a whole megillah about being a straight man," he said. "It's supposed to be so difficult. Actually, all you've got to have is ears. When...
...Here, [the holiday] is the focus of Irish-American people's identity and their connection to the land, so in a sense it's celebrated more vigorously here," he said...
...lack of an organized St. Patrick's Day party, some Irish-American students not affiliated with the ICS said they are inclined to leave campus to celebrate as well...