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...school, and Mary Ann and Lolly, the girls, are her students. The other adults are Mary Ann's mother Honey, a fortyish Southern belle, and her father Bill, a stuffy but decent bureaucrat who runs a Government poverty program. They are soon joined by Lolly's parents, Celia, a pretty, distracted woman in her 20s, and Dan, an easy-riding adman in his late 40s. Dan and Honey turn out to be habitual flirts, and though neither is truly interested in the other, each seems too arrogant to retreat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Act Like a Lady | 6/11/1979 | See Source »

...other close matches, number four Abby Meiselman stretched Celia Moffie to a 6-4, 6-3 battle, while Leslie Miller, in the sixth spot went as far as she could without winning, taking Caroline McAllister to a tiebreaker in the first set before dropping the match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Elis Shut Out Netwomen; Crimson Takes One Set | 4/23/1979 | See Source »

...Crimson editorial piece of February 10, "Power For the People," Celia Dugger contends that the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), the federal utility that supplies energy to much of the southeastern United States, is becoming progressive. Dugger points out that the TVA has started to encourage the development of alternative energy sources, such as a small-scale solar and wood heating systems, and that this shift toward thinking small has been encouraged by the Carter Administration. But Dugger fails to tell the full story. The bulk of the TVA budget continues to go to large scale, ecologically destructive energy development, more...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TVA: Same Old Menace? | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

...Celia Dugger replies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TVA: Same Old Menace? | 2/13/1979 | See Source »

...there than the slaughter of whole scenes, a violence often done to Shakespeare. With some notable exceptions, the performances range from competent to brilliant, and a whole stable of Britain's fine character actors trot through the familiar minor parts: John Gielgud as the righteous John of Gaunt, Celia Johnson as Juliet's nurse and Michael Hordern as her father...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Longest Run | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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