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...Missisippi Mermaid Truffaut once again explores the symbiotic relationship between love and death. Jean-Paul Belmondo plays a plantation owner on the island of Reunion who sends for a mail-order bride (Catherine Deneuve), only to discover that the bride intends to take his money and possibly his life. As in Stolen Kisses, the characters' passions are desperate and often haplessly pathetic...

Author: By Frank Rich, | Title: The Ten Best Films of 1970 | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...conducting the most extensive interviews possible to determine emotional maturity, discipline, and non-violent conduct. We will hold one orientation session here for New England applicants in late May, and all applicants for the project will undergo extensive training in Berea, Kentucky in June before departure for Missisippi. None of this indicates either that SNCC will accept young people who cannot act in a disciplined fashion under what will certainly be dangerous circumstances, or that students are looked upon as expendable "cannon fodder" to be put to "tactical advantage...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: VIOLENCE AND MISSISSIPPI | 5/5/1964 | See Source »

...Post Office announced that on April 7 it will issue a new 3? stamp commemorating the 150th anniversary of the Mississippi Territory. Part of the design will be the territory's original seal, in which Mississippi is misspelled "Missisippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Feb. 23, 1948 | 2/23/1948 | See Source »

...Orlando J. Bowman, of Salt Lake City, Utah, LL.B. University of Utah '34; Howard L. Burns, of Greenwood, S. C., A.B. University of South Carolina '36, a candidate for LL.B. University of South Carolina this June; and Claude T. Coffman, of Merigold, Miss., a candidate for LL.B. University of Missisippi this June...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 22 LAW SCHOOL AWARDS ANNOUNCED YESTERDAY | 4/15/1938 | See Source »

Mark Twain has written of the Missisippi life, its richness and its poverty, its tarnish and its glitter, its fighting and its tranquility as no man before or after has ever been able to. Mississippi was caught in the eddies of his humour and the slow current of his intellect. American literature has come to think of the Missippi Valley as the work of Mark Twain, as the Mississippi Valley is sure that Mark Twain is American Literature...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Student Vagabond | 4/13/1932 | See Source »

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