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Most of the available funds-around $325,000-will be spent on TV and radio advertising in New England. Some of the ads will try to deal with Chappaquiddick. After his Monday speech, Kennedy appeared on New England television to express fervently his sorrow over the death of Mary Jo Kopechne. Said he: "I know there are people who will never believe me, no matter what I say. I do ask you to judge me by the basic American standard of fairness, not on the basis of gossip and speculation...
...landscape, a living room late on a Saturday night. Three young couples have been playing Twenty Questions, or, more accurately, Who Am I? Sam, the host (Tony Musante), is up, and though everybody else is tired of the game, he refuses to quit He wants an answer. His wife Jo (Frances Conroy) stops him, however, with a game of her own. One by one she tells their friends exactly who and what they are: Fred is a crude redneck, and Carol is his latest bimbo; Edgar is a spiritual cripple, and his wife Lucinda is an irritating bore. But everyone...
...lady from Dubuque enters only when that overflowing cupboard has been emptied, after the guests have left and Jo and Sam have gone upstairs to bed. Her title is derived from Harold Ross's famous statement that he was not editing The New Yorker for "the little old lady in Dubuque." Albee uses it ironically, and his mysterious lady, played with ultimate sophistication by Irene Worth, is a figure of commanding presence. Coming down the next morning, Sam discovers that she and her black male companion (Earle Hyman) have taken charge, emptying ashtrays and removing glasses...
With daylight, last night's guests return to make up. They automatically accept the fact that Worth is Jo's mother and tie Sam up when he impotently protests. Even Jo, half delirious with painkillers, is drawn to her, finally begging the black companion to carry her to bed, and to death. As Sam gives up his role as husband and protector, so he loses his identity. The shape of our lives, Albee is saying, is created by the needs of those around us. When those needs disappear, so, in a sense, do we. Jo's pain...
...conduct a decade ago at Chappaquiddick Island would not be an important issue. He knew that a significant number of voters would never fully trust his account of what happened on the night of July 18-19, 1969, when his car careered off narrow Dike Bridge and Mary Jo Kopechne drowned. But he thought that voters would at least believe his assertion that there was nothing more to be said about the accident and finally turn their attention to more topical questions...