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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good film, at least his jumbling of theatrical convention and film cliche makes it fairly easy to watch. Despite playwright Howard Sackler's screenplay, and his play's prime standing as a Kultcha classic, Ritt hasn't stooped to the traditional homage Hollywood usually pays to Broadway hit-dom. The Great White Hope is severely divided, but many of the tensions the black actors manage to convey are true. At certain points-particularly when the splendid Moses Gunn, as an anachronistic black nationalist street preacher, accosts James Earl Jones after his character's return from a championship bout-the cast...

Author: By Michael Sragow, | Title: Ersatz Ethos The Great White Hope opening Dec. 21 at the Music Hall | 12/17/1970 | See Source »

...dying in Vietnam to make someone else money," Marine Cpl. James E. Baker Jr. of Chicago told me. "The way whites treat the natives of this country I know they don't give a damn about their free-dom...

Author: By Wallace TERRY Ii.), | Title: Bringing the War Home... | 10/8/1970 | See Source »

...just could not believe his putting," Amherst's Dom Valuinas said after his 5 and 4 loss to Schaaf. Schaaf was so good, in fact, that on his last five holes he needed only four putts, chipping in on one hole for a birdie. The Tufts golfer had it even worse, losing...

Author: By Martin R. Garay iii., | Title: Golf Team Defeats Amherst, Tufts | 4/16/1970 | See Source »

...serves such haute cuisine delicacies as langouste Thermidor, filets de sôle Sainte Marie and bananes flambées an kirsch. The restaurant's cellar, equally impressive, houses a 1929 Chateau Latour ($60 a bottle), a 1949 Chateau Haut Brion ($43), and a goodly supply of 1961 Dom Pérignon at $55 per magnum. Les Trois Soleils offers no entertainment, but "dancing weekends" are a regular attraction at Orly's top-floor Brasserie, where "Les 5 G-Men" pound a beat of which J. Edgar Hoover would hardly approve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: The City of Flight | 3/16/1970 | See Source »

...House sent through three related riders, two of them devised by Mississippian Jamie Whitten. They would sanction the South's "free-dom-of-choice" plans, which offer a rationale for continued dual school systems, and would discourage the busing of pupils to achieve racial balance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: End of Reconstruction | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

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