Word: grandmas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...generation of the 1960s was so quick to label all older blacks as 'Uncle Toms.' Roots has helped turn this around. People come up and thank me for making them go back to their parents and elders. And I tell young people to go home and hug their grandma and grandpap...
...weeks after finishing the Malcolm X manuscript, Haley wandered into the National Archives Building in Washington. The family history, told and retold by his grandma, still intrigued him. "The Kinte story, which had been passed down by many generations of slaves, was not elaborate. It was really very simple. But it was the story around which whole generations coalesced. It kept us together. It made us proud of who we were and from where we had come." Haley asked a clerk in the microfilm room for the 1870 census records of Alamance County, N.C., where his forebears had lived...
...down: Tom Murray, Occupation?blacksmith,' and beneath him, 'Irene, M?for Mulatto,' and their children. The youngest was Elizabeth, age six. And that really grabbed me. That was Aunt Liz. I used to sit on her front porch and play with her long gray hair. The experience galvanized me. Grandma's words became real. It wasn't that I had not believed her. You just didn't not believe Grandma. But there was something about the fact that what Grandma had been talking about was right there on U.S. Government records in the National Archives, along with the Bill...
...women's movement: as always, 98% of the people who read paperback historicals and almost all the people who write them are female. Fawcett Books publishes 14 historical romancers, all women, whose books sold 6 million copies in 1976. Bantam's Barbara Cartland, 75, the grandma of the genre and a one-woman fiction factory who can dictate a 180-page book in seven days, has 212 titles to her credit. Last year she wrote 21 love stories of beribboned yore in which, as usual, all the heroines remained virgins...
Back in Rome after moviemaking in Montreal, Actress Sophia Loren, 42, has a new role as a grandma−or at least a step-grandmother to husband Carlo Ponti's first grandchild. Loren's work in Montreal involved family matters of a different kind. In Angela, a modern version of the Greek tragedy Oedipus at Colonus, she plays a restaurant waitress who loses her infant son to Mafia kidnapers. Years later, the long-lost lad, played by Steve Railsback, 30, accidentally meets up with Mom and, presto, some Oedipal complexities develop. Sophia can only hope she will avoid...