Word: ch
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FRIDAY: Soul! An hour of Stevie Wonder. Wondrous. CH 2. 10 p.m. Color...
About 1,200 Canadian Liberal Party workers and their wives went wild for the drummer who sat in with the Renaissance rock group at Ottawa's Château Laurier hotel. Flailing away at the snares, Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau managed to make his own music. Said Jean-Guy Morin, the regular Renaissance drummer, "His left hand wasn't all that good, but then his right hand wasn't much either." After Trudeau had returned to the dance floor, Morin had another thought: "Maybe if I practice, I could be Prime Minister...
THURSDAY: Oliver Twist. (1984) Alec Guinness and John Howard Davies in David Lean's adaptation of the Dickens classic make the recent "Oliver!" stick in your gulliver by comparison. With Anthony Newley as the Artful Dodger. CH...
Picasso had been enchanted with the austere medieval château when he acquired it in 1958. It included 2,500 acres on the north slope of Mont Sainte Victoire, and, as he told a friend at the time: "I have just bought myself Cézanne's view." He liked the vast rooms, since he was always running out of space for his paintings and sculptures. But he soon changed his mind. Few friends dropped by as they did on the Riviera, and it was too far from the sea to enable him to take an occasional swim...
...Driver's Seat (1970) followed a girl who buys some outlandish clothes and heads south to find a man who will stab her to death. Not to Disturb (1972) thinly describes a programmed murder-suicide contrived by scheming servants in a microcosmic Geneva château that may be the modern world. Now, in a long-awaited book set in Manhattan, where Miss Spark lived in 1966-67, she plonks down a set of characters who are already dead...