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...setting is a New Hampshire church hall. The occasion is a wedding rehearsal that never does take place. The bride-to-be is Annie (Kathleen Quinlan). She is accompanied by her Aunt Helen (Elizabeth Wilson), her older sister Andrea (Meryl Streep) and her mother Ruth (Nancy Marchand), an unresigned widow. (Colleen Dewhurst played Ruth for a few performances but withdrew because of a prior commitment.) A fifth woman distinctly jars this ostensibly patrician clan. Dixie Avalon (Dixie Carter) is a breezy, purse-swinging entertainer who has been hired by one of the absent menfolk to sing Oh Promise Me, apparently...
Then again, everything about the show feels authentic, including the supporting cast. Robert Walden, as an over-zealous but talented investigative reporter, and Peter Hobbs, as a police-beat hack, avoid most of the acting clichés usually found in Front Page-style entertainments. Nancy Marchand plays the paper's imperious, widowed publisher as a cross between the Washington Post's Katharine Graham and Dorothy Schiff, the former owner of the New York Post. If Marchand and Asner keep up their game of verbal Ping Pong, they could become TV's Hepburn and Tracy...
With Hunt's goal, the momentum shifted to Harvard as forwards like John Marchand looked as if they owned the ice. But superb net play by UMass freshman Tim Hegarty held the Crimson's lead to a single goal...
...Crimson's Marchand cut the Minutemen's lead back to one tally with just :59 left in the period on a shorthanded goal, Harvard's second such score of the night...
...Marchand, Moot, and Spalding, who were responsible for all the Crimson goals, finally combined...