Word: mississippis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Truffaut's Mississippi Mermaid, 5:30, 9:25. The Bride Wore Black...
...contest. Although not confirmed, rumors claim that the hockey writer was still trying to thumb back from St. Louis where he watched the Harvard icemen dance with grandeur and then leave him behind. He was last seen sitting under the soaring arch in St. Louis next to the Mississippi...
...contrast to the jaunty Stans, a subdued and sorrowful LaRue last week learned the penalty he must pay for conspiring to obstruct justice in the Watergate coverup. The mild-mannered Mississippi oil heir had admitted taking part in the payoffs to the burglars and had testified for the Government in the trial that led to the convictions of H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Robert Mardian and Mitchell. LaRue, a former aide to Mitchell at Nixon's re-election committee, was sentenced by Federal Judge John J. Sirica to six months in jail...
...Mahal is non-stop energy. When he sings, his body is constantly in motion: his head bobs from side to side: his eyebrows leap up and down; his hips grind rhythmically; his foot stomps and his facial expressions never stop changing. If he's not accompanying himself with his Mississippi National steel-bodied acoustic guitar, then he'll play the piano or banjo or mandolin of kalimba or maracas or Spirit of '76 Fife. His raspy voice sometimes turns lyrics into a stammer reminiscent of Otis Redding. At other times, words are replaced altogether by suggestive mumbles or a bent...
...sleepy Mississippi River town of Quincy, Ill. (pop. 45,288) is an unlikely place for an educational mecca. Yet school administrators from as far away as Berkeley, Calif, Los Angeles, Boston and New York frequently tour the city's sprawling Senior High School II. For the past few years the school has been the site of conferences on educational alternatives that have been attended by 2,000 delegates from all over the country. What attracts the educators is Quincy's Education by Choice program, in which the high school is divided into seven separate subschools, each with different...