Word: missed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman. This swept the country earlier this year when CBS ran it in January. Critics called it the greatest movie made for TV ever. Not only is it that, but it's better than most of what they show in the theaters, although it can't shake the television look about it. Nate Shaw's story in the just-published All God's Dangers will make Cicely Tyson's hundred-year-old woman look a little less inspiring about the black experience--she emerges with an integrity borne of quiet suffering rather than resistance and strength...
...from the Modern Novel, and if Nabokov prefers to allude only to his own work, okay. The first sign that all is not well between Nabokov and the reader is the compulsive desire to anagram every unfamiliar name (or else run to a Russian dictionary) so as not to miss some crucial symbolic connection. Next comes the realization that there isn't really all that much there to miss...
Pulcinella is the Jeffrey company's first near-miss after a string of Diaghilev revival hits. Last spring, for example, the troupe offered a restaging of Massine's Parade-about a bizarre Paris street fair-that is a very model of How to Do It Right. Dating from 1917, this nose-thumbing effort to epater les bourgeois was another all-star spectacular; conceived by Poet Jean Cocteau, it had jaunty Picasso sets and costumes -including a pah- of cubist constructions that might fairly be described as architecture on the move-and a maundering score by Erik Satie punctuated...
John J. Droney, district attorney of Middlesex Country, said yesterday that last night's screening of "The Devil in Miss Jones" at Quincy House represents a criminal offense, calling the film "an obscene movie which of course shouldn't be shown...
Massachusetts State Superior Court Judge Vincent Brognia yesterday ordered a temporary ban pending an appeal on the showing of "The Devil in Miss Jones," "Behind the Green Door" and "Deep Throat" in Boston, Fitchburg and Stoneham...