Word: known
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Notes Toward a Dreampolitik," she focuses on bikers and a young girl who wants to be a movie star. The bikers' childish excesses outrage her, yet she captures their alienation and compares it with the futile dreams of an aspiring star who desperately wants to be known...
Classes began today at the Harvard Alumni College, a little-known adjunct to the Summer School...
Also appearing with Marley will be Dick Gregory, a comedian also known for his involvement in left-wing movements. Other artists at the benefit will be Patti Labelle, Eddie Palmieri, and Olatunji Jabula...
...Woodward was the closest to a true genius I have ever known," Blout said. "He had a clarity of thinking and an ability to see to an objective that is the characteristic of true genius. It is quite possible that if he had lived he would have won or shared a second Nobel Prize...
DIED. Philippe Halsman, 73, one of the world's best-known portrait photographers; after a brief illness; in New York City. Born to Jewish parents in Latvia, Halsman spent ten years as a successful fashion photographer in Paris before fleeing to the U.S. in 1940, one step ahead of the Nazis. In New York, he became a frequent contributor to Look, the Saturday Evening Post and LIFE, for which he did more covers (101) than any other photographer. Three of his portraits-of Albert Einstein, John Steinbeck and Adlai Stevenson-appeared on postage stamps. These and others of John...