Word: knighting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...very time when Hitler was violently attacking Catholicism root and branch in his table conversation. Toland's literary pretensions do not help. A section on Hitler's ill health in 1941 is headed-incredibly -by an epigraph from Keats: "O what can ail thee, Knight at arms,/ Alone and palely loitering...
...plot has to do with the gentle Esclarmonde's efforts to win her elusive beloved, the French knight Roland. Her plans are hampered by geography and a few other cumbersome details: the old Emperor, who abdicated in Esclarmonde's favor, conferred his wizardry powers upon her on condition that she remain veiled to all men until a suitable warrior consort is found...
...spots and ads. You can add 15 to 20 share points to a show by good promotion." Silverman is no less punctilious about the refinements of scheduling. Says Dann: "Before I saw Charlie's Angels, I knew it could be a big success. Pretty girls against The Blue Knight and Quest. If it was up against Police Woman and M*A*S*H it would not be a runaway...
Roberts manages the sort of homely but vulnerable manner that might conceivably make a brash young knight eager to wed and protect her, then live to regret the day. Finney, the best he's been since Tom Jones, projects all the lying charm of that role, but with more blushes, blusterings and side-ways glances that belie his conscience-free self-confidence. And because the script faithfully represents the tensions created by the times rather than playing on the assumptions of the sixties, this psychological guerrilla war still rings true and poignant, whereas the same theme in Who's Afraid...
...Charlotte Observer (circ. 169,968), owned by the Knight-Ridder chain, sends four editions across the Carolinas every morning, and more than 60% of its readers live outside Charlotte. Editor C.A. McKnight covers a lot of ground with only 38 reporters, but does not slight long-term investigative projects. One example: Observer reporters spent 21 months digging through expense vouchers at the Southern Bell Telephone Co.; so far, eleven executives have been indicted for cheating the utility. The paper's support of school busing has not pleased many readers, but Editor Reese Cleghorn's sensitive editorials rarely offend...