Word: munis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Ann Dvorak, 67, brunette film star of the '30s and '40s who debuted as Paul Muni's sister in the 1932 gangland classic Scarface; of cancer; in Honolulu. The smoky-voiced Dvorak was best known for playing suffering, hard-luck women opposite such stars as James Cagney (The Crowd Roars), Dick Powell (College Coach) and Spencer Tracy (Sky Devils...
...Everybody was unhappy. It was only a matter of coordination." From his fortified villa in the mainland province of Rio Muni, where he had lived in seclusion for the past two years, Macias put up a brief fight, then fled into the jungle. But first, he burned a huge pile of banknotes: some $105 million in Guinean and foreign currency, or just about all the cash in the country, which he had gathered up before he retired to the villa...
...nearly 30 years a Jainist muni, or monk, Chitrabhanu was a spiritual leader for nearly four million Jainists in India. Forsaking his monastic vows, he broke a 2500-year-old tradition by leaving India in 1970 to attend spiritual summit conferences in Geneva and in 1971 at the Divinity School. Faced with fast-paced technologically-oriented lives, Westerners were thirsting for the rest and calmness of the East, Chitrabhanu says: "If they take the time to understand the inside life as they have understood the phenomena of the outside, it will be a blessing for mankind." It is just this...
...Hollywood Depression-era movement toward socially involved films. It was also one of the best. It is a story of a veteran forced into prison by his circumstances and the abuse he suffers at the hands of society. The film is a little dated, but remains compelling. Paul Muni stars in this Mervin LeRoy effort...
Untroubled by Muni's marital obligations, Fiore asks for absolute love and scrupulous constancy. Mimi complies passionately, elevating adultery to exalted heights of fatherhood. Life is modest but full until Mimi is transferred back home to Sicily. He smuggles Fiore and their child into town, only to find that his wife has duplicated his situation by becoming pregnant by a lover...