Word: mariane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...underfoot, put peroxide and lemon juice on her hair and set out to be "the perfect Seventeen magazine knockout." Boys quickly appeared, and so did a high school teacher determined to build musicals around Meryl's singing. During her freshman year, she made her first appearance onstage as Marian in The Music Man. The young performer was talented but hardly driven. She gave up voice lessons when they interfered with her duties as a cheerleader. Classmates named her Homecoming Queen...
...English Puritans who settled Massachusetts and established their capital seat at Boston were not known for their solicitude towards the Bishop of Rome. Themselves heirs of the English Reformation, their memories of the Papacy and the Marian persecutions were annotated by the standard work found in all of their libraries, John Fox's Acts and Monuments, commonly called The Book of Martyrs. First published in 1563 in English, The Book of Martyrs with its vivid, even lurid accounts of the sufferings unto death of Protestant martyrs at the hands of the Church of Rome and Bloody Mary served to remind...
...Marian (Tammy Grimes) is ultracivilized, a paragon of taste and class. She holds no lasting grudge over the divorce and even goes to bed with her ex from time to time. Estelle (Mary Beth Hurt), the most recently separated, is bewildered and scarcely able to cope with the enormity of the experience. An orphan who married an orphan, she had a glowing faith that building a nest would be the golden tie that binds forever...
...Marian's man (Lee Richardson) is a promiscuous boulevardier who swings both ways. Louise's former husband (John Cunningham) is a likable fellow, pugilistic only during the marital mismatch. Estelle's man (Graham Beckel) lives in an orphanage of the mind except that he now has a Du Pont to bail...
Higgins, author of the minor classic The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1972), still knows how to place surreal descriptions in the dialogue of his characters: "Marian looked like a small horse, perhaps a pony, who had read Vogue and believed it." And he has not lost his conductor's ear for the music and lilt of Boston Irish patois. Here the punch lines are stronger than the plot lines, but Higgins' characters are so shrewdly observed by Year's end, as Edgar confronts Peter, that it is impossible to disagree with his summary...