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Word: louisa (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attentive viewer can decipher by watching any single episode, centers on the repeated attempts by Norman (Ralph Zito), the title character, to convince his sister-in-law Annie (Nora Seton) to go away with him, for the weekend. Annie invites her brother Reg (David Prun) and his wife Sarah (Louisa Jerauld) to the house to care for their mother while she is gone...

Author: By Burton F. Jablin, | Title: Currier's Conquests | 12/4/1979 | See Source »

...waiting were having an effect on the families of those still held in Tehran. Some wives all but charged the State Department with criminal negligence for having failed to protect its staff once the Shah had been admitted to the U.S. "I am so bitter I could scream," said Louisa Kennedy, wife of Hostage Mike Kennedy. She has been manning telephones in the State Department Operations Center, talking to families of other hostages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Test of Wills | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...However, Louisa B. Wood '81-2, who spent last spring teaching school in Seoul, says she was shocked by the assassination...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: Two Students Discuss Park's Killing | 10/30/1979 | See Source »

...essayist, Hardwick fashioned an authoritative style out of liberal commitment and sharp sense. As a fiction writer, she has turned the crutch of feminine sensibility into a dangerous weapon: "Actually Louisa, the young girl visitor, has just gotten quite a good job. She knows a few things and a few people. She went out early, but not too early, in black pants and a black leather coat. She put on a scarf with the name of a French designer displayed with such prominence it might have been he who was the applicant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Lady Sings The Blues | 5/7/1979 | See Source »

Then again, the living characters seem hardly worthy of the honor. Louisa Hufstader's medieval matron is suitably doughty and prim, and Dan Jacobs as the chaplain manages to draw some laughs via his doddering devotion to his viol. But Win Hoover, in a pivotal role as the elder of the conniving brothers, is too easygoing to contemplate chicanery. His gestures toward the women he supposedly desires are unbelievably half-hearted. Marie Richards as the timid Alizon does little to stir passion in any of her suitors, and with the other supporting players is humorlessly one-dimensional...

Author: By Cheryl R. Devall, | Title: Air, Water, But Alas, No Fire | 12/6/1978 | See Source »

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