Word: marched
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Long March begins...
...Hollywood keeps churning out '50s movies, almost guaranteed successes, which don't have much of any connection to the actual decade. Chubby Checker still plugs the hits he made 25 years ago, and the new Mickey Mouse Club has a whole new generation of Mousketeers on the march. There is something rather pathetic inherent in nostalgia--that yearning for the good old days that never really existed--and especially in the media-contrived instant nostalgia which is constantly being produced in this country. Things are hardly gone before they're immortalized, distilled and stereotyped. If that doesn't produce results...
When Japanese Conductor Seiji Ozawa went home for a visit with his orchestra, the Boston Symphony, last March, he took time out for a special project: a long-planned TV series on Japanese orchestras. As part of the series, Tokyo's Gakushuin University Orchestra performed the third movement of Brahms' fourth symphony, and viewers got the royal treatment. In the string section of the orchestra was Prince Hiro, 18, eldest son of Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko. The prince, a freshman, has chosen to follow in his father's footsteps and attend a public university...
...this woman truckin'? Model-Turned-Actress Deborah Raffin is revving up fo her role in a March 10 CBS movie, Willa. Raffin, 25, plays a waitress who takes up truck driving after her husband abandons her and the kids. To prepare for the role, she put in 50 hours learning how to drive a 16-wheel, 40,000-lb. rig. "It's so powerful you could almost run down a street light and not know it," says Raffin. "I was petrified." But the fright was worth it, Raffin thinks, because the film shows how well women can cope...
...already portrayed ten historical characters on the screen, including Napoleon and W.C. Fields, the wrong shades are being called back from the dead. "Joan Crawford? That's entertainment value. But go out and try to do the life of Beethoven or Albert Schweitzer or Einstein. You march into a producer's office and say you want to do Einstein, and they'll say, 'Where are the girls...