Word: suppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...somewhere in exurbia. Their plans for a normal Friday night have been made without reckoning on Harry and Ramona, a younger couple newly ensconced in the only other house on the block. Ramona appears first, while Enid is in the kitchen seeing to supper, and makes some lewd advances toward Earl...
...invites her to stay for supper, only to learn from Enid that they have nothing to serve but frozen succotash. Next comes Harry, a blond, muscular lout, eagerly accepting the invitation that Ramona has relayed. Earl is abashed and thus vulnerable to Harry's demand for money (to buy takeout food) keys (Harry claims that his own car has a broken fuel pump...
...more graceful in defeat than he had been during the chase. Connally and Nellie drove to Houston's River Oaks Country Club for a late supper. As they entered the dark grill room, the home folks' heads turned in recognition. And suddenly, as a group, they stood at their seats and applauded...
...search for his free spirit is the stuff of comedy, and Tyler plays much of his story just that way. Luckily, her hero is as amusing as he is misguided. He tells an opera story to a bedridden daughter: "Don Giovanni encounters a statue and invites it home to supper." He complains to Emily about Bonny's handling of the family money: "We never see it never buy anything inspiring with it, but it's there, all right, for things that don't show-new slate roof tiles and the children's education." Morgan...