The attendant delivers a TV-dinner style ray, one that is fitted with straws and pictures of the different foods.Sue: You better tell the other girls to watch their language.Beinstock cautions Dolores (Beverly Wills) from telling he two straight-laced, ""Conservative-ory"" additions a salacious joke ("rough talk") about a female tuba player who is stranded on a desert island with a one-legged jockey."Les and Joe gamble (by guessing the number of matchsticks in Joe""s hand) to decide who will have a "real American steak" dinner with Bonnie.Lester also had become uncommunicative with his self-loathing, glum, moody, sullen and confused daughter Jane (Thora Birch) and felt disrespectul loathing from her.A smiling, avuncular traffic policeman directs downtown traffic in an orderly fashion.[There are many other rules or constants by which everyone lives in the town.]A series of dissolves lead from outside the clapboard Newton family home (with a large bay window and wrap-around front porch) into the upstairs bedroom of "Little Charlie," paralleling her introduction with the one of her Uncle in the rooming house - o deliberately emphasize their close affinity and psychic link to each other.