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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro, "dance their hips off, turn on to booze, narcotics, airplane glue, girls." To them, a steady job, in the slang of the ghetto, is "slave," and no amount of youth-corps training at "skills centers" can help them. Many of the jobs open to these youths cannot match either the income or the romance of the traditional ghetto occupation: petty crime...
After a short courtship, the bereaved merge forces, causing the predictable problems: lineups for the bathroom, family jealousies, identity crises when her kids have to change their last names to match their new stepfather's. Just as predictably, in the final footage the frowns turn into smiles that collectively display something like 500 teeth...
...festooned with stale situations and weary wisecracks, Yours, Mine and Ours relies for its levity on two unassailable assets: Fonda and Ball. At 62, Fonda can still leave a line wry and dry. At 56, Ball commands a solid slapstick style that none of her younger rivals can match. Her squint-eyed search for a false eyelash that has managed to wander to her forehead, for example, is converted into the kind of classic comedy chase that has been absent from films for too long. And they are ably backed by a surprisingly supple comedian named Van Johnson, who seems...
...success of Roth's monologues rests not on the author's familiarity with this kind of sociology, but on the fact that few writers of his generation can match his ability to perceive and record manners and minutiae, or equal him in relating life's inner tumult to its outward appearances of order...
Only Mike Ezell and Graham Maloney, two select sophomores, managed to put together the winning combination of serves, ground-strokes, and vollies in the singles matches. The number one doubles match was called because of boredom with the score deadlocked at 10-10 in the third...