Word: wickets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...composer in an unsung songwriting team. He is also guardian of his twelve-year-old sister (Susan Neher), who serves as housekeeper for him and his sappy live-in lyricist (Wes Stern), to the agitation of local social workers. The series' premise is a rather icky wicket, and Simon and Garfunkel the boys are not. But, as in The Partridge Family, the cast is disarming and the whole production surprisingly artful...
Both men take a quick interest in Sloane, Dadda because he recognizes the youth as a wanted murderer, Ed because he likes manly young fellows -preferably draped in leather goods. Kath and Ed engage in a game of sexual cricket, with Sloane as the wicket. As is always the case with such games, it is the bystander who suffers. Dadda ends as a mummy, done in during a Sloane tantrum. The outcome is bigamy, accompanied by rituals that ridicule marriage, family, religion, sex and death...
Though it was a sticky wicket, rain in Canberra did nothing to diminish a shining performance by Australian Prime Minister John Gorton. Leading his parliamentary cricket team to a hard-won 121-119 victory over the capital press eleven, the P.M. hit seven runs and bowled out one press batter with a style characterized by a newsman as "unpredictable and suspect...