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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lenny Bruce Performance Film--A rare view of the man who brought American comedy into the modern age, and who consumed himself in the process. These days, not too many people subscribe to the Lenny-as-martyr-for-free-speech theory; while he did fall victim to repression all over America, his personal life was tortured enough to put him on auto-destruct without outside help. In this film, made shortly before his death from an overdose in 1966, you can see both of these elements--the piercing and hysterically funny comedy/social analysis that was considered obscene and Bruce...
Edith Gratia Stedman, director of the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau for 24 years and an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O B E), died on July 16, in Boston, at the age...
According to the British newspapers, all these critical steps in the Brown case ? removal of the eggs, fertilization in the laboratory and implantation ? took place in a small turn-of-the-century institution called Dr. Kershaw's Cot age Hospital, amid green fields about a mile from the hospital where Mrs. Brown awaits the birth. Steptoe has done much of his fertilization work there, using four rooms, plus a small adjoin theater, that are all protected by locks, sliding doors and a red warning light...
...that day as well. To protect its fast depreciating investment, the Mail quickly stationed a guard outside Lesley Brown's room and persuaded Oldham Hospital officials to refer all inquiries about the birth to the Mail. When a TIME correspondent called the paper to confirm Lesley's age, a spokesman obliged but added: "That's free. The next one will cost...
...Evita, as the crowd called her, was a third-rate actress with first-rate street smarts who worked her way up from the casting couch to the Pink House, the traditional seat of Argentina's First Family. When she died in 1952 of cancer at the age of 33, the bereaved descamisados sought to have her canonized. The Vatican diplomatically declined, suggesting that her good works were basically secular...