Word: tyson
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Musical Evening--John Tyson, recorder, and Tom Pixton, harpsichord; music of Bach, Couperin, Telemann and Stein; Peasant Stock Restaurant, 415 Washington St., Somerville...
...agency as a communications technician. Wilson, known as "the ice-man" at the agency, was a cold yet charming operative who kept in gregarious touch with his CIA buddies. He often took Mulcahy along to suburban Washington bars, like the Rough Rider Lounge at the Ramada Inn in Tyson Corners, Va., where agents gathered. Mulcahy was convinced that his partner was still working "under deep cover...
...than his other films. In his new movie Pryor plays a sometime con, forced by his parole officer to drive a bus from Philadelphia to the State of Washington if he wishes to avoid a return to jail. The passengers are the lawman's fiancée (Cicely Tyson) and a group of variously troubled, and variously adorable, children, whose orphanage has been closed and who seek a home on a farm owned by Tyson's aunt and uncle. From the moment the antique vehicle sputters out onto the turnpike, one knows what is going to happen...
That plot would be serviceable enough if the incidents that mark the cross-country passage were fully exploited for comedy or suspense, or if any of the characters were allowed to stray from their totally predictable path. And surely an actress as talented as Tyson should be given some material that would show her as something more amusing than Miss Priggy...
...political comer who weds Constance Wei-don (Morgan Fairchild), the snooty illegitimate daughter of Whorehouse Madam Lute-Mae Sanders (Stella Stevens) and Millowner Claude Weldon (Kevin Mc Carthy), who is married to the patrician Eudora Weldon (Barbara Rush), whose affair with the town's newspaper editor, Elmo Tyson (Mason Adams), may have produced teen-age Skipper Weldon (Woody Brown), who aims to elope with Waitress Annabelle Troy (Dianne Kay), who dies in a fire at Claude's mill that was planned by Truro's venal sheriff, Titus Semple (Howard Duff...