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...point his would-be bride (Linda Lavin) says with caustic distress: "See, he doesn't know how to fight. That's why I'm not winning." Finally, the pair gets married out of something resembling verbal combat fatigue, and the bride is arbitrarily killed by a stray bullet shortly after. At play's end, the family is in a state of siege, with guns at the ready...
...Pueblo were released and flown home to the U.S. The episode will not end there. The crewmen, some of whom said they had been beaten and tortured by their captors, now face a formal court of inquiry that will raise some serious questions. Did the Pueblo at any time stray into North Korean waters? Should the ship have been surrendered without a fight? Why did the men sign "confessions" that they had spied...
Surrounding Ondine, like an eccentric's collection of stray cats, are people with some interesting names: Rotten Rita, the Sugar Plum Fairy, the Duchess, Billy Name, Irving du Ball, Paul Paul, Taxine, Moxanne and Ingrid Superstar. What they are actually doing, as opposed to what they are saying, is difficult to fathom from the transcript of the tape. The jacket blurb again is helpful: "The Duchess, who has stolen 3,000 pills and a blood-pressure machine, is in the hospital; Ondine dresses in drag for an evening at the 'teenage whore house'; Taxine confesses to Ondine...
...felt that somehow Harvard's sculptor ought to belong to me; I ought to be able to watch as well as learn from him. But after tripping over and disarranging at least five of his works in process, and after being disturbed at the interview with Mirko by a stray artsy busybody, it's easy to see why Mirko doesn't hold open house. His jungle of massive wood beams from razed houses (works-to-be), metal shears, styrofoam, paints, glues, saws and over 100 sculptures and sculptures-to-be is neither suitable nor navigable for masses of visitors...
First, there is a neat, pink, numbered card that allows visitors to enter. Then there are receptionists to make sure that strangers do not stray into just any of the 250 rooms in Washington's financially troubled Willard Hotel, which has been taken over by United Citizens for Nixon-Agnew. Finally, there is a typical Nixon executive-cool, nononsense, briskly with...