Word: mother-in-law
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...control over either cast or play. He has not, fortunately, tried to intellectualize Blood Wedding; but neither has he stylized it, given the characters some central idea of movement and speech on which to hang their parts They even talk in different accents; the Mother (Tina Morse) strong Spanish, the Mother-in-law (Norma Anderson) mildly cockney, the rest ordinary American. This strikes one as odd, admittedly, only when one can hear them, for they conspire in whispers on a set placed so far back from the apron that actors and audience rarely make contact...
...knows in advance that the marriage is a mistake, but he doesn't know how awful a mistake. He doesn't know how awful it can be to live with a mother-in-law (Thora Hird) who natters even worse than her daughter, who hates him for "ruining the poor girl's life," who before six months are up has cunningly lured his wife out of his bed and back into hers. In the end the hero gets the girl back, but does he want her? Never mind. The clot is actually determined, in his decent average...
...records. As the hero. Actor Bates (of Broadway's Look Back in Anger and The Caretaker) develops a penetrating study of a man's man who is fundamentally a mother's boy. As the heroine, Actress Ritchie is the golden-haired brass-brained tintype of the sort of girl men always look at twice but only take out once. And as the mother-in-law, Actress Hird is an out-and-out wedding-nightmare...
When Architect Bertrand Goldberg tried to explain this concept to his mother-in-law, she replied: "That's simple. It's what we used to call living above the store." The reasons for round buildings are as varied as their purposes. In some, roundness has been dictated by a client who simply wants "something different"-and to this group belong the mushroom motels and "fun" private houses that punctuate the countryside. In others, site, utility and economics, as well as esthetics, are factors. Round buildings can be functional and beautiful, thrifty and structurally sound. As long as rectangular...
Said Player as he pocketed the $13,000 check that brings this year's winnings to $41,513: "This will come in very handy. I've got a wife, three kids and a mother-in-law to support, and a traveling nurse to pay. I'm a very hungry golfer...