Word: freeman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUTCHMAN. Another shocking play effectively turned into a film-this time it is LeRoi Jones's one-act polemic on race hate. Shirley Knight and Al Freeman Jr. enact a brutal brief encounter in the subway that builds danger with the insistence of steel wheels screeching through a curve...
...Muncie, Ind., Omaha, Neb., Paramus, N.J., Chattanooga and Memphis, Tenn., and Grand Prairie, Texas. But none were quite tidy enough to win the National Clean Up-Paint Up-Fix Up Bureau's annual Cleanest Town award, subsidized by paint and varnish manufacturers, and presented by Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman in Washington last week. The cleanest town in the U.S.: San Antonio, Texas...
...volt jolt from the third rail. Adapted for $60,000 from LeRoi Jones's one-act play, the film describes in 55 minutes the brutal brief encounter between a black man and a white woman who meet in a subway car somewhere under Manhattan. The man (Al Freeman Jr.) looks like a young intellectual; the woman (Shirley Knight) acts like a maniac in a miniskirt. Smiling and snarling, she flops down beside him and slides her thigh against his thigh. When he stammers, she strokes his lips and invites him to "do the thing" right there and then...
...Three others-Charles Bassett, Elliot See Jr. and Theodore Freeman-died in jet-plane crashes. The Soviets are known to have had only two cosmonaut casualties: one in a high-altitude parachute jump that is required of all space trainees, the other in an auto accident...
...stop the assembly line," wails Robert Rutledge, executive vice president of the Florida Citrus Mutual. "Only one power can pull the switch, and He hasn't sent us either frost or hurricane this year." Next to Him, the grower's best friend is Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman, who has agreed to buy at least 10 million gallons of frozen orange concentrate...