Word: characterizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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In the Gulf County, Fla., courtroom of Judge David Taunton these past four years, the rule of law has been compassion for the poor. When an appliance company tried to repossess a washing machine from a black man with no job, a wooden leg and seven children, Judge Taunton reached...
WKRP in Cincinnati (Sept. 18, CBS, 8 p.m.). If this Mary Tyler Moore pro duction can maintain the level of its premiere, it will be the funniest series to hit prime-time TV since The Mary Tyler Moore Show itself. Set at a money-losing radio station that dumps its...
DIED. Robert Shaw, 51, fiery character actor, novelist and playwright who parlayed his rugged good looks and powerful screen presence into late-blooming Hollywood stardom; of a heart attack; in Tourmakeady, Ireland. Shaw wrote five novels, critically acclaimed in his native Britain, and rewrote one, The Man in the Glass...
Mercouri plays a fading film star who returns to her native Greece to appear in Medea and also in a TV film about her preparation for the role. As a publicity stunt she arranges to visit, in jail, an American woman (Ellen Burstyn) who, like Medea, has committed infanticide. What...
There is much to admire in Director Nikita Mikhalkov's rendering of this tale. He has shot the movie in summery, impressionistic colors that well evoke the end of imperial Russia. His comic vignettes about the early days of his country's film industry are reminiscent of old...