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Gentle father. Her father is a warm gentle businessman who spends all of his time reading. Her mother says, "Boris, are you going to read in this kitchen? We will have Lermontov in the sauerkraut ... Mamma glowered. Sauerkraut was no joking matter. This was the creation of the world going on here. There was no time to lose; she might forget a continent; she might leave out a sea. Such seriousness!" In the basement, barrels, vats and bins were filled with enough food for three winters, and then the poor of the neighborhood were invited to come in and take...
...LENGTH OF THE POLDED proper menu is impressive and for $6.95 one is promised "Mama Leone's Famous Dinner," consisting on paper of fresh vegetables, fruit, cheese and bread; "Famous Antipasti Della Mamma" such as cherrystone class, shrimp cocktail leone, or a glass of tomato juice; followed by a pasts or a soup, then a main course of meat, fish, or meat and served with a vegetable, potato, and mixed green salad; concluding with a beverage and a dessert; cake, pastry, fruit, spumoni or ice cream. If one's main course tastes lean toward price ribs or steak, that will...
...himself, keeps expecting his speeches to end in a song. Gorgeous sets, an even more gorgeous Anna (Samantha Eggar) and a brood of cute Oriental brats seem equally out of place in a show that is nothing more than the standard TV saga of the dumb daddy, the smart mamma and the smarter kids who walk over both of them...
...investigation into her identity was one of gradual awakening. "When Bill died," she explains, "I was a gloved, girdled and hatted upper-middle-class mamma. There was no need to work, but I could not tolerate sitting in that house being the 'widow of . . .' or the 'mother of . . .' What it finally came down to was the whole thing of being a person. I wanted to make it on my own. That's not to say that I was a leader in Women's Liberation. The whole atmosphere of the movement was almost forced...
This image of woman was distilled in a title when Arthur Kopit wrote O Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin' So Sad. Despite ample surrealistic high jinks, such as having poor dead Dad fall out of the closet as stiff as an ironing board, the underlying tone of the play is lethally bitter. The adolescent hero is in the steely grip of a domineering supermom, and when a lupine nymphomaniac attempts to seduce him, the scene more resembles cannibalism than sex. His only destiny seems...