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...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...
...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...
...sense that may be true. But such talk of a unified Germany, however vaguely expressed, still causes anxiety on a continent where the war sis all too clearly remembered. Says Bishop Albrecht Schönherr, who was the leader of the East German Lutheran Church until he retired 2½ years...
...Sis seems to think it's not very family like just to keep her out of the club because one or two girls don't like her. "I don't remember pledging or rushing to get into the family," she said...
...night; a shopping center or housing development can be more profitable. Another culprit is cable TV, particularly the first-run films shown on such pay systems as HBO and Showtime. One of the major appeals of the drive-in was that the whole family, from Grandpa to Baby Sis, could pile into a car, taking with them food, pillows and blankets, and see a double feature surrounded by most of the comforts of home. Now they can see the same kind of films without even leaving home. A third conspirator: the movie companies, which often demand longer runs than many...