Word: etta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tale sent to newspapers in nearby Dallas and Fort Worth one April day in 1897 by a local correspondent named S.E. Hayden. It was generally ridiculed at the time, and most citizens of Aurora still scoff. "Hayden wrote it as a joke and to bring interest to Aurora," says Etta Pegues, 86. "The railroad bypassed us, and the town was dying...
...characters to its political message. Rather than turn Francois into a snotty villain and Pomme into a peasant saint, Goretta, an eyenhanded Swiss, attacks the system that victimizes them both. The movie's title, with its allusion to 17th century genre paintings, suggests the delicacy of Gor-etta's style...