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...anyone who has read it knows, People is about people--mostly celebrities of the rank a half-step ahead of Jaye P. Morgan (sic.) and a step behind Burt Reynolds. But People is also about jes' folks, once-ordinary citizens, who, through either outrageous good or ill fortune, have come to claim their 15 minutes in the sun. People looks at its flock with an endearing innocence; it sees only good and bad, with little in between. The crucial point about People is that it sees its once-ordinary folks as good, and this is the quality the 'Poon captures...
With a week to go in the campaign, McGovern--who has always been forced to come from behind--appeared to have pulled even with Abdnor, his strategy having put the challenger on the defensive. So while the jes' folks Abdnor waged a last-minute dietary campaign--capping his race with a huge "bean feed" at the state university, and Jim Abdnor Pancake Day in Mitchell--the more senatorial McGovern aired a series of commercials and made private visits across the state, hoping he could pull off another miracle...
...FIRST DOG DAYS of this sultry new decade, two films of precious little artistic merit and perhaps less social value have burst on the scene to entice us into the cool, dark air of the neighborhood cinema. These are movies about jes' plain folk who might live around the corner or across the state, silly stories of ordinary people who want to be rich so that they can be happy, happy in the American...
...members heroically retrieved the dead and wounded and rescued refugees in the midst of the shooting, estimated at week's end that at least 500 people had been killed and as many more wounded in the initial fighting. Most of the casualties appeared to be civilians like Maria Jesús Gadea...
...giant pep rally on behalf of national liberation movements-and, by implication, on behalf of Cuba's own policy of armed intervention in Africa. "We must be reminded from time to time that keeping our own revolution alive does not mean just study and consolidation," says Jesús Sais, a statistics major at the University of Havana. "It also means struggle and sacrifice for the sake of other people's revolutions...