Word: muriel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speakers-usually mounted in the front and rear doors-without interference from bumpy roads, tunnels, bridges or commercials. President Johnson has stereotape players in his airplane and most of his cars, favors dance music of the 1930s. Vice President Humphrey has one in his limousine, as does his wife Muriel in her auto. In Hollywood, you just aren't In unless your Rolls rolls to the tune of the tape...
...Muriel Humphrey, D.F.A., straight-A Huron High School student who dropped out of Huron College to help Hubert get through the University of Minnesota. As wife of the Vice President of the United States she has fulfilled the role with modesty, graciousness and dignity...
...Depression. Young Hubert's education in political science at the University of Minnesota was interrupted by financial troubles for six years. Before he finally received his degree magna cum laude, he had worked as a druggist, soda jerk, janitor and hog inoculator. After marrying a home-town girl, Muriel Buck, and fathering the first of their four children, Humphrey went to graduate school and wrote his master's thesis on the New Deal. Settling in Minneapolis, where his first teaching job was for the WPA, he inevitably became involved in local politics...
Last Yar at Marienbad, made in 1961, corrected many of the technical faults of Hiroshima and allowed Resnais to push further into the realm of abstraction. By 1963, when he made Muriel, Resnais was in unquestionable control of his medium, rendering the slightest impressions subject to his intent. At this juncture, Resnais seems far closer to the Italian director Michaelangelo Antonioni than to his New Wave counterparts; but then, anything is permissible in the New Wave...
...Mysterious World of Muriel Spark," a dramatic rendering by Marion Seldes, John Heffernan and Louis Turenne of some of the author's caustic short stories...