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Jacqueline R. Weaver '68 chose to balance her life somewhat differently. As a professor at the University of Houston specializing in oil and gas issues, she has had to deal with being seen as an oddity by the men that dominate the Texas oil scene...
They'd take up a whole pew, the Weaver girls. "Everybody called us that," says Nan. Five born in seven years. Joanne was Daddy's girl, at least that's what the others claimed. Barb had red hair and matching temper. "Little Nan" was timid and quiet. Then came Sue, then Mary, the baby. They lived a classic Roman Catholic postwar childhood: their father, a bandleader, easygoing and affectionate; his wife a stern but loving homemaker; new outfits, with bonnets, each Easter; the strict, black-and-white doctrine of the Baltimore Catechism. Ice skating at the church rink. Splitting...
...never the brightest of the five, and her eye condition made reading difficult. But she had a ferocious will. "A very stubborn girl," Mary notes. "It was hard to sway her." The best example was her courtship. Every week of their adolescence, the younger Weaver girls went to the Ambassador Bowling Alley, which was managed by a good-natured, black-haired man named Les Williams. "Les was the cat's meow," says Mary. "He was super." He was a year older than their father. Sue never bowled, but she would sit for hours eating French fries and chatting with...
...morning of May 15, the Weaver girls, one by one, arrived at Sue's house. Barb relayed a last-ditch message from her husband: "Tell her I said to cut the s--- out and forget about this." Sue replied, "No way." And then she said, "I'm ready." Dan rolled her back to the bedroom, and the rest heard her sobbing and telling him how much she loved him. At around 9:45, everyone else filed...
...that one wants to take anything away from its professional actors. The Bushiness of Kline's President is well-observed, and the woolliness of his Dave contains bristles too. He's warm without being entirely cuddlesome. Weaver has a veteran wife's weary wariness down perfectly. Ving Rhames as a Secret Service man allowing Dave to melt his professional steeliness, Kevin Dunn as the press secretary for whom "no comment" is a moral statement, and Charles Grodin as a CPA appalled by federal accounting practices complete one of the best comic ensembles in years. Under Reitman's unforced and confident...