Word: misse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MISS JANE PITTMAN...
E.D.T.) is not the first made-for-TV movie that takes on a serious subject, but it is one of the very few that sticks uncompromisingly to its intentions from the first frame to the last. Miss Jane is not a real person. Her "autobiography" is, in fact, a narrative convention adopted by Novelist Ernest Gaines in order to create an archetypal "life"' encompassing the essence of the black experience in the U.S. from the end of the Civil War to the beginning of the civil rights movement. The year is 1962, and Miss Jane...
...shows a day, and United counts more than 22,000-10% to 15% of their capacities. The CAB'S remedy may be to require passengers to pay for tickets up to four weeks in advance and then charge penalties of $25 to $100 to passengers who miss their flights. United's Carlson opposes a tough no-show policy. "A customer really can be caught unavoidably by weather or lose a taxi," Carlson says. "Then he's facing a fine, and then come problems and antagonism." Delta and North Central managements share his view. The regulation, however, would...
Nine years ago, dutifully wearing a skirt because she'd been told that Canadians can't stand American women in slacks, Miss Craven journeyed north by small boat from Vancouver into the Queen Charlotte Straits of British Columbia in search of adventure and material. Her trip ended at the top of King-come Inlet, in a village of the Kwakiutl Indians. Kingcome is a place of icy water, deep, fir-trimmed inlets, returning salmon, foraging killer whales, overwhelming beauty and, for the once proud Kwakiutls, overwhelming sadness. Even the young are not sure they can face going "outside...
Superstar Bobby Orr of the NHL Bruins suffered an injury in the area of his surgery-scarred left knee yesterday and will miss the National Hockey League's All-Star Game Tuesday night in Chicago...