Word: melindas
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...while waiting for the guests to arrive, there is some joking and joshing. But as the youngsters enter, they hear a wrought-up Martha hurl "Screw you!" across the room at her husband. Nick (George Grizzard), aged 30, is a new member of the biology department; his wife Honey (Melinda Dillon) is four years younger. At first they are onlookers, but before long they find themselves sucked into the vortex of a maelstrom. The fun refuses to remain innocent, and the games become deadly: in turn they play Humiliate the Host, then Hump the process more liquor than does...
...role of the opportunistic biologist is the easiest and least rounded of the four. But George Grizzard fills it out with admirable skill. Melinda Dillon, an actress new to me, is truly remarkable as the ridiculously tiddly young wife of weak stomach and low I.Q. This is a treacherous part that would be unbearably painful in the hands of a lesser actress...
...Hagen fills Martha with pantherish ferocity and untamed vulgarity. In a skillfully modulated performance, Arthur Hill as George limns a memorable portrait of the sadist as A.B., M.A., Ph.D. George Grizzard makes Nick a moral chameleon with all the courage of his connections, and when Nature passed out brains, Melinda Dillon's Honey was given cotton candy. The charged intensity that Director Alan Schneider brings to an evening full of talk is based on one penetrating insight-talk can kill, and murder is rarely a bore...
...Yearbook also elected Melinda M. Harris '62, of Gilman House and Hudson, Ohio, as production coordinator, and Michael A. Whyte '63, of Adams House and New York City, as editor of Cambridge...
...Russian clothes, the family imports its wardrobe from London. Mark, whose Russian is excellent, goes regularly to his job as editor of the Soviet monthly, International Affairs; Natasha edits the translations of Russian stories in the biweekly English-language newspaper, Moscow News. Their children. Fergus, 13, Donald, 11, and Melinda, 6, have spent three years at Soviet schools and are as fluent in Russian as in English...