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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During her solo, Monk's voice moves from full-throated chanting to feathered warbling to splintered wailing. Her last cry evokes the image of an old Eskimo, or ancient squaw, or fairy-tale granny calling the spirits to accompany her passage from her death-bed...

Author: By Susan A. Manning, | Title: Dream Journeying | 2/18/1976 | See Source »

...black-tie dinner and show had featured Jacqueline Onassis as chairman and star attraction, Gerald and Betty Ford, Nelson and Happy Rockefeller, a clutch of Kennedys and other Washington celebrities. But Sally was unimpressed. "Most of the VIPs looked as if they'd really rather be home in bed," she snipped. As for Jackie: "Usually when you try to smile all the time that way, your teeth get dry, and your lips stick to your teeth. How does she do it?" The whole evening was "an enormous letdown," concluded Quinn. "Nobody really has a chance to talk or mingle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 9, 1976 | 2/9/1976 | See Source »

Clarkson said that she had begun wearing her fur-coat to bed and, in an interview yesterday, Bossert described finding ice in a shower stall...

Author: By Joseph Straus, | Title: Bossert Gives Diners in Lowell House His 'State of the Plumbing Address' | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

Blinded by sleet, and in need of a bed...

Author: By Seth Kaplan, | Title: To the Valley Below | 2/2/1976 | See Source »

...camera cuts to a scene inside the ascending lift, where two people are beginning to make love in the flickering half-light. The wife's eyes are closed, her neck arched back. We cannot see the man's face clearly. The scene shifts abruptly the disgruntled husband in bed, worrying. We realize that the previous scene is only his fantasy, not the real event at all. Back to the hotel in Baden: he invites her up to his room, and she turns him down. This kind of cross-cutting is used to good effect throughout the film. The audience momentarily...

Author: By Anne Strassner, | Title: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

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