Word: sis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't an easy job, but the weather was good. Sis and I positioned ourselves outside the ranch in the morning to grab the papers as soon as they were delivered. Dad went up the satellite tower at UCSB with a radio transmitter to scatter the airwaves so no news broadcasts could make it over there. And Mom cruised the hills in a jeep in case that rascal Col. North were trying to sneak in to brief the President. The important thing was that President Reagan not hear anything about this nasty Iran-Nicaragua business...
...most popular one goes: "hip za zoo za chik-a room ba zoo F. Skiddy Von Stade mister Fu (clap) Man (clap) Chu (clap, clap) teddy roo teddy ra teddy ruddy duddy fuddy duddy sis boom ba Harvard Harvard...
...ordinary Thanksgiving in 1973? There's Dad (Carroll O'Connor), screwing himself into his easy chair, deflecting harsh words and harder responsibilities. Mom (Frances Sternhagen) is patrolling the house in her robe and bunny snood, calling "Wakey uppy! Wakey uppy!" in the tinny cascades of Texas motherhood. Sis (Linda Cook) is chatting on the phone with her boyfriend and threatening to "devote my entire life to crisis counseling for the holiday-impaired. My mother can be the poster child." And young Jeremy (Christopher Fields), just back from the war, slouches about like a lost soul. On closer inspection, though, this...
...this funny and harrowing play takes place in a Dallas suburb on the tenth anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. The coincidence of dates sends Home Front aloft toward political metaphor. Dad may be every "reasonable" statesman who led the U.S. deeper into Viet Nam; Mom and Sis could be every uncommitted American woman, worried sick about her boy or her beau, but hoping against all evidence for the best. And Jeremy may not be kidding when he says that in Viet Nam "I died." Alive or dead, he is the twisted ghost of every Camelot ideal. This good...
...shoes. There was Ruth May Sutton, who "used to be there in the school grounds at night, and the guys would run trains on her-six, seven, ten boys in a row"; and Madame Oop, who worked on the railroad and hung out "with another gay guy called Sis Henry." This unusual childhood led to a great deal of sexual confusion ("I just felt that I wanted to be a girl more than a boy"), a lot of guilt, but no apologies. Not then, not ever. The book is bursting with raunchy backstage tales of orgies, voyeurism, drugs and lust...