Word: son-in-law
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GENERATION. Old Trooper Henry Fonda finds himself bucking the winds of youth and anticonformity when he visits his newly wed daughter and son-in-law. Their Greenwich Village loft is already a fortress of individualism and, if they get their way, will soon be a delivery room for their at-any-moment baby. They get their way. The audience gets the laughs...
GENERATION. Old Trooper Henry Fonda finds himself bucking the winds of youth and anticonformity when he visits his newly wed daughter and son-in-law. Their Greenwich Village loft is already a fortress of individualism, and, if they get their way, will soon be a delivery room for their at-any-moment baby. They get their way. The audience gets the laughs...
...hyperthyroid magazine editor (Sandy Baron) to thwart the ultranatural-childbirth plot. This keeps the stage busy, but what keeps the play moving is undrying freshets of laughter, the limber comic pacing of Director Gene Saks, and the abrasive tension of the generational tug-of-war. The son-in-law's nose is keener than his intelligence. He scents corruption in every institution, but he demands a kind of impossible social purity, something akin to repealing the Industrial Revolution. The father has permitted an urgent sense of familial responsibility to blur his ethics on expense accounts and income taxes...
...Bolton (Henry Fonda) is a Chicago advertising man who believes that he is "very close" to his daughter, but when he flies to New York to meet an unknown son-in-law acquired within the week, it is quickly apparent that he has been out of touch for at least nine months. His daughter (Holly Turner) is quite obviously about to make him an instant grandfather...
...singing and whacking together his own furniture. Though Fonda's mind and face boggle in a perfect weather map of cloudy consternation, he makes a liberal-minded effort to adjust to all this. His period of adjustment conies to a desperate halt when he learns that the son-in-law intends to deliver the forthcoming baby himself in a self-carpentered obstetrical room...