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August 20-26
ARIES - March 21/April 20 , SCORPIO - Oct 24/Nov 22
Making clear priorities is especially Own up to past mistakes this week.
important this week. Friends demand An honest self -reflection will lead
your attention from every angle. you to greater happiness. A family
Keep a balance. Don't spread your- member needs• your help around the
self too thin. A romantic encounter house on Friday. A trip to the gym
leaves you confused on Monday. introduces a new love prospect as the
Trust your own instincts for answers. week
a ends. ream mprvides insight
Don't repeat past mistakes. 23J 21
nt.
TAURUS - April 21/May 21 • SAGITTARIUS -Nov
Show the people around you that you Handle sticky situations with family
appreciate them. A surprise visit from members or roommates gently. Plan
a Gemini brings good news. Don't let your points carefully, but still speak
yourself get overwhelmed with your mind: Don't count on an Aries
work. You've earned the right to del- for support. If you've been putting
egate responsibility freely. Use it. off extrarae to iUlar ctNew i, nets
s
Don't let jealousy keep you from a g
oodgrowing. Be realistic in love. are born in classes or clubs.
GEMINI - May 22/June 21 CAPRICORN - Dec 22/Jan 20
There's a lot of emotional baggage to A
family
member's
mber s problems
Swears
carry this week. Think romantic mat- youthisweek. ke prider ext in
ters through carefully. Make special being a goodAn
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efforts to see your mate's side. If support
mailnpyou car , omethingi to
you're thinking of walking away, try
in thetalking things out first: Avoid biting look forward to. Avoid losing sight of
comments in doing so. Children are long -ter ners 'goals.
Bee spontaneous in
the focus this weekend. UARIUS -Jan 21/Feb 18
CANCER - June 22/July 22 AQ
It's a good time to get away. Take a Don't let your mind play tricks on
vacation to an unusual place with a you this week. You're not a4 down as
close friend. Down-time at work will you think you are. A trip to the gym
drive you crazy. Look for creative on Wednesday helps you fuel up.
ways to utilize your time. Keep busy Fight the urge to call in sick on
in your personal life. Look for ways Friday if 'you have important dead -
to turn a mundane evening into a Seeklines to meet.n the advice of a romantic matters,
memorable celebration.
ra.
LEO - July 23/August 23 PISCES - Feb 19/March 20
Feeling a bit ofcabin" fever? The Leo Your expertise in financial matters is
needs -to be in the great outdoors this needed as the week opens. Give
week. Thinking about taking time advice freely to a Sagittarius, and
off to hike or go camping in the (s)he will benefit. It's a good time to
wilderness?'Do it. Ask your mate to make smart investments. Enter con-
join you. Romance is sizzling in the tests and play lotteries. Luck is on
August heat. Just be sure you don't yotrospective thisur side moodweek. Don't let get you down. an
get burned!
THE WORM ADYANCETIMES
O'Neill's Long Day's production
nearly flawless on Patterson stage
By RUTH TATHAM
Special to the Advance.Times
Why do you go to productions
of the Stratford Festival?
Eugene O'Neill's searing drama
about one infmitely long dayin
life of an Irish immigrant
s
theatre. at its best. The Stratford
production, staged appropriately in
the Tom Patterson Theatre, is
a
flawless Long Day's Journey
Night. It is highly unlikely that
you will ever again see as compel-
ling an interpretation of this com-
plex family of talented, wasted,
unfortunate people.
I remember having the same
feeling of wonderment about other
people's families when I fust saw
a stage production of Arthur Mill-
er's Death of a Salesman. (I was
21, and the stage was in downtown
Detroit.) How do people
scathed by life and so ambivalent
about each other manage to cling
together and call themselvES
family? Their very helplessness
glues them to each other, but at the
price of cutting strips from each
other endlessly, with every conver-
sation.
The modern tendency to lump
these families and termthem all
"dysfunctional" serves no purpose
other than to pigeon -hole them,
without examining the diversity of
their problems or learning which
parts of their agony are, in hope-
fully small measure, a bit of our
own families' and can be changed.
The Tyrones are tour father
James is a faded actor who began
life in an impoverishedIrish
mother"sin-
gle-parent" family, the
slaving through menial work to
keep a roof over her head and
some food (never enough) in the
mouths of her four abandoned
children. James is the man of the
house when „his drunken father
sulks out on diem, ai►d he must
VIRGO - Aug 24/Sept 22 YOUR BIRTHDAY THIS WEEK
It's your week .to give, Virgo. Use The next 12 months:
your creative forces to make a spe- Romance is going to be extremely
cial, night for a Scorpio friend even rocky this year. But you will learn
better. Help soothe a family mem- some valuable lessons about who
.ber's nerves on Wednesday. A sur- , you are and what you want in the
prise "guest throws you for a loop future. Practice patience in roman -
over the 'weekend. You'll be in •for tic matters whenever possible.
more than you bargained for. , Learn to talk when you least feel
LIBRA - Sept 23/Oct 23 like it. You'll be surprised at how
Be honest about your feelings in far it tales fou.o Donhike ttheglect your
ways of romance. Showing too much per'
porate
will lead an Aquarius to sadness. ladder. Progress comes slowly, but
Live it up at a work-related function it's well worth the wait. A casual
on Wednesday. Show co-workers a friendship may become more solid
side of you they have not•"yet seen. throughout the year while a closer
Your sense of humor paves the way ' one could fall apart. You'll realize
to new friendships. Be careful not to that time changes everyone, not
give too much too soon. just you.
FOR ENTERTAINMENT PURPOSES ONLY
CLUES ACROSS
1. Used to be United
4. Female sibling
7• Plant fiber used for making rope
12. Lyric poem with complex
stanza forms
13. South American wood sorrel
14. High-speed buffer storage that is
continually updated
15. Luggage
17. Expressed pleasure
18. Dark-skinned member of a race
in Australia
19. Businesswoman
21: Periodic paperback publication
22. Snow runners
24. Woman (French)
25. Ore deposit
26. Cablegram, abbr.
27. Strong beliefs
29. Football player who throws a
forward pass
31. Salt or ester of hydriodic acid
35. Copyread'
37. Visual receptor cell sensitive to
dim light •,
38. Beehive
41. Matt of grass
42. Flatter
43. UC Berkeley
44. Drain of resources
45. Diego, Francisco. Anselmo
46. Take part in a rebellion
48. Lustful prose
52. Goddesses
53. Saniuel Haya_a, U.S. senator
54. Auricle
55. Sariroyedic
56. Years, abbr.
57. Helps little firms
better. She makes the arthritis so
quietly real that you want to go for
a painkiller to help her; she makes'
the denial of the succession of
woes so plausible that you see it
not as a way to deal with her life
but as THE way to deal with her
life.
She makes the mercurial mood
shifts so acceptable that you are
stunned over and over to find bow
dreadfully she has wounded her
loved ones. And, make no mistake,
•
these people really do love eaci
other - but they love themselves
even more.
William Hutt, grand old man of
Canadian stage, ttuns in a wonder-
ful James Tyrone. He is aided, of
course, by being still a fine, hand-
some man in his own right; but his
scene of self -revelation to son Ed-
mund is so touchingly played
that
even the audience can't .fathom
whether he is genuine with his son
or simply acting the best role of
his career.
Elder son Jamie, who knows
most of Mary' s secrets, including
his own part in the cause of her ag-
ony, is well -portrayed by Peter
Donaldson.. He 'explores the real
proportion of his family members'
responsibility for his addiction,
and raises tacitly that problem so
often faced in alcoholism: how
much of the fault ,lies in genes,
how much in environment, how
much in self-determination?
Tom McCamus, as Edmund, the
feverish and
favorite
ss
is simply
imp yPeHe gives the
ability of fading in and out
of direct focus through his scenes
with others, so that he never dis-
tracts from the importance of
someone else's vital speech, but
instantly slips into the central posi-
tion when he is the appropriate
pivot of the drama.
Martha Burns ,gives a cameo
performance as the maid Cathleen,
the little piece of life who is part
of it all but not changing it or be-
ing changed by it. Cathleen gives
•
that slight touch of uncomplicated
ordinariness to a collection of peo-
ple who fancy themselves more
extraordinary than they perhaps
really are.
The Irish have contributed won-
derful things to the Western world.
Eugene O'Neil has written of them
with love and great insight, and his
marvelous drama is presented with
great skill by designer Astrid Jan-
son and director Diana Leblanc -
and a top-notch cast.
The opening night crowd cer-
tainly thought so. The play runs
until Sept. 17.
Outstanding Drama. O'Neills. Long
ay's Journey Into Night at the Tom Patterson Theatre'is draw -
ng rave reviews from critics and audiences. Martha Henry and
1.1
illiam Hutt star. '
r
gnly when fortified enough by ,tie¢ Coop these four people up with
drug to -face theworld-of the'otherr ' enough domestic help that they
don't even need to do routine
quit school at 10 to work in dread- Tyrones.
ful factory conditions, and learn The day of the drama is the place them in a seedy, poor
first tasks,
poor -
the fear of "having to go to live in day the others have actually real- ly furnished house that James once
the workhouse." ized that she is once again taking built and has loved, but Mary has
He never forgets those memo- lmorphine• She has this time always hated, in a "hick town" in
ries, all through his rise to fame ;,(dashed or her.The mayspecbee thpreirlast
sari butmen offn the scabsd they h ve of ltheirittle to do
for
and his years bulb will suffice
The `this' return to the narcotic would tional wounds and t • the flesh
lusingle light will m we n iatl- 'seem to be her inner awareness bleed, which they all do with sin -
65, he si the itlwith his when, i- that her beloved Edmund has con- gular skill.
ly he sits in with his adult ty of sum'ption and will probably die of So, my friends, you don' t go to
his -- in contrastndg the liberality estate ,it, as did her alcoholic (but charm- this play for a rollicking evening
dealsown whiskey on real been
or whiskey. He has been `'Mg) father years before. of laughter. But if you want in -
amazingly handsome, dashingly Add to all this agony the fact tense, magnificently staged and
charming, well known but not ethat her three men all drink too acted life - life that is a distilla-
hnked deeply to any true friends. ;much, and indeed, Jamie is obvi- sm tionf liofs, f a 101heof
s the bits
your night at from a lot
His wife, once the beautiful and tously an alcoholic whose cynicism
he
vivacious Mary Cavan, grew up in S'is matched only by his lack of a theatre. been
a loving middle-class strictly Cath- useful purpose or job. Martha
olio Irish family, and as she ideal-
izes that life, in her twilight, she
sees it as a time when her great
choice was between a'life as a nun
and a life as a concert pianist -
until James Tyrone's matinee, and
her instant and , total love for him
later that day when her father in-
troduces them after ath
epe omance. They marry,idyll
soon turns into a long partnership
of hardship, though always buoyed
to survival levels by their great
mutual love.
Two sons survive: Jamie, who is
35, and either lacks any of his par-
ents'
redeeming charms, or is so
twisted by life with them that they
are submerged. One of the drama's
themes is the search for the inner
Jamie.
The youngest family member is
the poetic and ill Edmund, the
much -younger son who is cough-
ing his way through "a summer
cold." On this fateful day, he is to
be told by his father's doctor that
he has "consumption" (pulmonary
tuberculosis), which every one of
the family already knew but
couldn't face up to.
ADDICTION
Mary has severe arthritis, which
apparently onset shortly after Ed-
mund's birth about 25 years be-
fore. Her husband is accused by all
the others of having been too
cheap to get her a good doctor. In
any case, the prescribing physician
put her on a painkiller, Morphine,
and she soon became addicted.
Thus began a lifelonstruggle
fr them all, the struggle
narcotics addict who manages to
get enough help (self and from
professionals) to break the habit,
but slips again and again. When
slipping, she lies to them all, and
probably to herself, and uses low -
slung doctors to write the needed
prescriptions, so she may hide "in
the spare bedroom" and emerges
CLUES DOWN
1. Distress signal duty
2. Military term - Special
assignment
3. in a way. sells
4. New York art district
5. Decorate a cake with frosting
6. Sandwich ingredient
7. Crustlike surface of a healing
skin lesion
8. Plant hormone (Yiddish)
9. Hapless, unlucky guy
10. Before
11. Projecting ridge on a mountain
16. Ed Murrow's home
20. Tied again
22. Engine additive
23. Large New Zealand parrot
24. Tomei, actress
25. Sudanese pound
27. Central bank of the U.S.
28. Mortar trough
30. Calendar mo.
32. incongruities
33. Arrived extinct
34. Electronic data processing
36. State capital
38. Specialized leaf that protects a bud
39. Spoken in the Thai -Burmese
borderlands
40. Chosen from or preferred above
others
42. Posed plant
44. Dried leaves of the hemp p
45. In a way, placed
47. Drunkard
49. Went freely
50. Horse-drawn carriage
51. Macaws
Henry has never
Dear Readers: Welcome to "Working with know that you are reasonable, not demanding. And it
Adolescents". This monthly column addresses alsoSince guarantees
future
meewill realign on
the subject. with
adolescent issues and consistently contains betweenyourparents
500-550 words. Because of the column's a "maturing adolescent", I'm confident that they'll
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Our teenage daughter (15) doesn't.
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band and I are beginning to think so because our
Dear Mr. Spowart: I'm 14 and my parents insist on
an 8:30 curfew. I don't agree. I'm 14, but I look 16.
We have lots of arguments about this. I just keep
comingin late and my parents just keep grounding
leave
me. I get' angry and 'tell them I'm ,going ,to
home if they don't give me a later curfew. Guess
what? They won't go for t.Why can't they
o you agree?
co-operate and solve the problem?
K.L.
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problem can only get worse because you are
confusing co-operation with submission. That is,
you expect your parents to "give in" to your angry
and I
huS
daughter frequently intrudes on our privacy.
111 she'll
you two examples: When I'm combing my take
walk into my bedroom (without knocking), my
lipstick from my make-up purse, and leave without
saying a word. There are other times when she'll just
interrupt our conversation for whatever reason. We
would appreciate your views on this family matter.
K.A.
Dear K.A.: It's obvious that as a child your daughter
enjoyed a relaxed home environment, one in which she
was able to move around freely, and express herself
openly. Now, as a young adult, she owannts u se degree
eher tof
privacy. That's fine, as long as y
he
arne plan (and rules) have to change for her d well.
threats. Apparently, they area t going to; g
That is, she'll have to be more considerate
admire them for that. began to intrusive. She'll be treated like a young adult...at the
You may "look"ald. bute zeat's timeroyou
"act" like a 14 year old. The real problem isn't about same ucanfident bhatexpected
once this assuect �s discussed with
re like one.
curfew; it's d about your immature behaviour.
If you decide to use the following suggestions, your daughter, she will consider your individuality and
things will probably work out for you: •provide you privacy. As a result, mutual family respect .
• Noti . Four parents that you are going to start will be stronger than ever.
fy y„ Andrew Spowart is are author and social worker,
foillowiiloc wo-m and host of the TV show "Teen Talk". He also provides
• In one or two months request a meeting with your
Parents to discuss your feelings about curfew. a private counselling service for adolescents and
Suggest, that since you're following your curfew, parents. Please forward your correspondence to Box
would, they allow you an extra half-hour.r realize
201 (Real names3, e PO, Sr Catharines,
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this is a small extension, but it lets your parents