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This controversy has its origins in 1978??s landmark Supreme Court case FCC v. Pacifica Foundation. A listener to Pacifica’s New York City station filed a complaint after George Carlin’s infamous “Filthy Words” bit—in which the legendary stand-up comic and counter-culture icon gleefully lists and graphically annotates the anatomical, excretory, and reproductive colloquialisms deemed unfit for broadcast media...
Fonda’s acting career—which includes two Best Actress Academy Awards for 1971’s “Klute” and 1978??s “Coming Home”—is far from over. During her retirement stage, she “didn’t get offers,” adding, “I made it very clear that I never wanted to go back and I wasn’t interested and I didn’t miss...
...from warmer and brighter climates.“David Hockney Portraits” and “Light My Fire: Rock Posters from the Summer of Love” both opened at the MFA in February.David Hockney is a British artist who has been living in Los Angeles since 1978??341 miles and a decade away from equally Californian graphic artists in Haight-Ashbury, who invented the psychedelic poster aesthetic for then-new rock bands like Jefferson Airplane and The Grateful Dead.Hockney has been selling paintings since he was in art school in the 1950s and is best...
...other colleges in the Boston and Cambridge area have similar snow policies. Officials at Northeastern, Boston University, and Boston College said that closure due to snow is very rare. However, unlike Harvard—which appears to have been devoid of snow days except for the three days in 1978??officials at these schools said their universities on average close down due to inclement weather anywhere from once a year to once every couple years. Some of Harvard’s biggest rival schools also shut down more frequently. Princeton just last year experienced one snow...
Controversy, or at the very least disagreement, among the critical community, is a key element of Toback’s career. His directorial debut, 1978??s Fingers, was, as Toback describes it, “defiled, defamed and rejected except by a handful.” That “handful,” however, included famed critics David Thompson and Pauline Kael, and the film is now regarded as an American cinema classic...