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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will either find maddening or charming. Wonderful montage touches from a usually staid director, Lewis Milestone. It's all right to confuse this with Hallelujah, because that too is a period piece and worth seeing. King Vidor's 1929 all-black film was the first studio production not to jes have'em singin' and dancin' away...

Author: By Peter Kaplan and Jonathan Zeitlin, S | Title: Film | 3/11/1976 | See Source »

...like this. I can't leave him. You grow to love a person and you cain't cut it off. But he cain't give me what I want any more. Now I'm not talking about going out and finding a young feller or nothing...But sometimes you jes have to lay down with somebody...every now and then...to feel right...

Author: By Timothy Carlson, | Title: The Power of Love: A Nashville Lightning Storm | 4/18/1975 | See Source »

...McGovern debacle. "We're back in the party for better or for worse, or, as we say down here, 'ridin' or walkin',' " says Michael Griffin, 25, an energetic Wallace aide. "The Governor is like Minnie Pearl when she says, 'Ah'm jes glad to be here.' Party stalwarts who once denounced Wallace as a bigot are now treating him like a brother. Last July 4, Ted Kennedy appeared with the Governor at a celebration in Decatur, Ala.; in February, Senator Henry Jackson journeyed South, where he said he would be glad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICS: Wallace: Gearing Up Again | 3/25/1974 | See Source »

Other attractions this week include Roberta Peters, soprano with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Bethany Beardslee, an expert on vocal techniques, the Mandala folk dance group; a poetry reading by Samuel Menashe; and a midnight jazz performance by the Jes Grew Revue at midnight on Friday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Ginsberg and Mankiewicz Will Speak At Quincy House Festival This Month | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...essential spirit of HooDoo is called Jes Grew. It slips into New Or leans and spreads across the country like a science-fiction plague. It is the jazz in the Jazz Age. Even Warren G. Harding is reported locked in the Lincoln Bedroom listening to The Whole World Is Jazz Crazy. Ranged against Jes Grew are the forces of the Wallflower Order (read those who do not dance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Summer Fiction | 8/14/1972 | See Source »

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