Word: martinisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like to see freshman basketball coach and former Notre Dame star Ray "Dice" Martin suit up for one game to see if he can still...
...most influential personalities in U.S. religion? The Protestant weekly Christian Century asked 35 experts in the religious and secular press and found the "clear winner" to be Evangelist Billy Graham. Other members of the top ten in order of votes received: Church Historian-Journalist Martin E. Marty, President Jimmy Carter, Ecumenical Rabbi Marc Tanenbaum, Notre Dame's President Theodore Hesburgh, Oral Roberts, Campus Crusade's Bill Bright, Jesse Jackson, Anita Bryant and William P. Thompson, the chief executive of the United Presbyterian Church. Lest the survey be taken too seriously, George Burns, star of Oh, God!, got two votes...
...loose with recent political fact. Then the same network aired a so-called docudrama, The Trial of Lee Harvey Oswald, to even harsher criticism. Now NBC and CBS are getting ready to take their lumps. King, a six-hour miniseries consecrated to the life and times of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has already been assailed by King's second in command, the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, for overstating the role of a white adviser during King's crusades. CBS's new three-hour account of Ruby and Oswald in Dallas may drive the nation...
...Daniel Martin, Fowles...
...recorded one solo album, which resulted in little notice and a prolonged legal wrangle with his management. Joel and his girlfriend Elizabeth lit out for L.A. To pay the rent, he played cocktail piano for half a year in a neighborhood bar called the Executive Room that advertised BILL MARTIN AT THE KEYBOARD. Joel emerged from this honky-tonk penance with a new wife (Elizabeth), a new contract from a major company (Columbia), and a new album whose title song, Piano Man, became a hit single...