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Celia thinks that Lucy's marriage to the unworthy and violent Mikey is a farce. She tries in vain to break up their marriage and uses Sam as the scapegoat. Leimbach strategically juxtaposes the strength of Lucy's marriage against strength of bonds between the members of the Haskell family. Lucy and Mikey, along with their four children share a bond that Sam relates to, despite his growing entanglement with Lucy. Furthermore, Eli, Ginny's boyfriend who owns a nightclub, adds to the chaos and dishevelment of this network. Everyone is knit together closely...
There was Rob and Eric, two juniors at UMass, both lanky individuals jumping for their first time. There was Scott, 22 years old, driving a pickup truck and wearing a vain attempt at a moustache...
Inside, as the Red Sox went down to defeat once again, the age-old cynicism that seems to have accompanied the Beantown team ever since the end of World War I was as strong as ever. The two guys sitting behind me in the bleachers, in a vain attempt to catch some exposure on ESPN, held up a sheet between innings that read "74 years of frustration. Win one before we die." This spring has all the making of a typical season of baseball in Boston...
According to Doutre, a particularly successful advertising campaign in the midsixties recounted the plight of the mythical American Federation of Gypsies as they sought in vain to get Salada to stop putting fortunes on their tea bags. As the story in the ad went, the Tag Lines were driving the gypsies out of business...
...time Theresa Ann died of respiratory failure, her organs had deteriorated to the point that they could not be used for transplants. From a medical point of view, her mother's ordeal had been in vain...