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...Tess the Bag Woman would be next. She sells potholders, rifles garbage cans and chats with little guys in flying saucers. "Tell them the world is cracked," one of them commanded her a while back. "Boy," she sighs, "did I know that." If nobody believes her when she says the world is cracked, her friends from space instruct her, she should take the message to the National Enquirer. "Even if they don't believe you," the saucerites say, "they might run it anyway...
Lily Tomlin, at age 37, the woman with the kaleidoscopic face, is just about that clever herself. She becomes the embodiment of Edith Ann, Lupe, Rick, Tess and a dozen or so others so quickly and flawlessly that she fools even the pros. "I don't think Tomlin really acts," says Robert Benton, who directed her in the year's sleeper film hit, The Late Show. "Her imagination is so vast that she just assumes the personality of the character...
...Tess Ewing, speaking for the Chicarie tenants, said, "We have to battle rats and roaches and backed-up plumbing and ceilings that are falling down. We are poor working people and we just can't survive another increase...
...fulfillment that comes from writing, from grabbing an idea and getting it on paper before it disappears, from tying one action into another and making it all one whole, has been felt by both sexes. It is a great tragedy that Tess Slesinger, with her deep understanding of all that it means to be a woman, was unwilling to have a female character proclaim this joy as eloquently as the rest of her women describe their sorrows...