Word: pataki
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sand comes equipped with a financially harassed brother-in-law (Michael Pataki) who lives in the failed subdivision he designed ("the only FHA-approved ghost town"). Pataki's wife (Penny Marshall) provides another standard element in the Moore formula, a voice for the reality principle, keeping everyone's fantasies within bounds. Trying to borrow money to keep a perpetual-student sister in school, Pataki inquires whether Marshall would like to see the girl "out in the streets." "No, she wouldn't do too well there either," she replies thoughtfully. Sand, who starred in the superb Story Theater...