Word: iowan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...casket was covered with yellow roses, lilies and daisies. Among the 200 mourners at Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris were her three ex-husbands. So ended last week the tragic story of Actress Jean Seberg, who was plucked out of obscurity as a 17-year-old Iowan to star in Otto Preminger's 1957 movie Saint Joan, and who died at age 40 in the back seat of her car of an overdose of barbiturates. But even as she was buried, there unfolded in the U.S. an appalling account of how the FBI in 1970 tried to ruin her reputation...
...least one group of Central Square businessmen, however, dreams of a permanent reversal in the Square's decline are considerably less ephemeral. The 80-member Central Square Association of Business and Professionals, Inc. (CSA) is headed by Chuck Smith, a former Iowan who came to Harvard's Graduate School of Design a few years back, stuck around, and is now the president of Com-Plan Inc., a Central-Square based architectural firm with offices in Cambridge and Caracas, Venezuela...
...more appalling when an Iowan like this goes down into The City...
...like others, has sometimes been the target of reprisals. His reporting of foreign policy problems provoked Kennedy to cut off Sidey's White House sources for two weeks in 1961. Lyndon Johnson once responded to a column by dismissing Sidey as an "Ivy Leaguer." (Sidey, a fourth-generation Iowan, went to Iowa State College.) Spiro Agnew has ranked Sidey among the Administration's biased critics. Reviews like that demand continued performances...
...from, but here Bogdanovich invokes the whole Great Tradition of American cinema and any critical connection to social reality, if it was there with Hawks in the thirties, has long since disappeared. What's Up Doc? ends up as waspish a comedy as they come. Heroes are clean and Iowan, the villains are the fat, the sexually repressed, the foreign. Barbra Streisand doesn't even get to play a nice Jewish girl...