Word: berta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Through the accumulation of such glancing, oblique details (sensitively photographed by Renato Berta), Goretta builds up a pattern of shapely ironies. Pierre impulsively confides in one of his intended victims, a post office clerk named Nelly Wagner, and she ultimately becomes his mistress and accomplice. Yet, credibly and touchingly. Pierre remains devoted to his wife -Nelly is only his partner in crime. When, as they must, the police catch up with Pierre, his baffled, tearful wife remonstrates, "I'm strong too!" In trying to make up for his father's mistake, he has only repeated...
Married. Roger Mills, 24, a white civil rights law clerk for the N.A.A.C.P. Legal Defense Fund; and Berta Linson, 24, a black Jackson State College student whom he met while working in the L.D.F.'s local office a year ago; he for the first time, she for the second; in a nondenominational ceremony in Jackson, Miss., the first legally sanctioned interracial marriage in the history of that state...