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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...women for the March of Time. A co-founder with Orson Welles of the Mercury Theater, she helped him perpetrate the 1938 "invasion from Mars" radio broadcast and in 1941 landed the first of her hundred or so screen roles in Citizen Kane (as Kane's mother). An Oscar nominee for five films including Hush ... Hush, Sweet Charlotte (she never won), she was best known in recent years as Endora, the waspish mother witch of TV's durable Bewitched series...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 13, 1974 | 5/13/1974 | See Source »

Undoubtedly, the Celtics would like to run against the Bucks, especially since Bucks's guard Lucius Allen remains sidelined with a broken ankle and Milwaukee has to go with aging Oscar Robertson and Jon McGlocklin in the backcourt. But if Jabbar continues to pour in over 35 points per game and controls the boards at both ends of the court as he did against the Bulls, the Celtics' fast break will crumble...

Author: By Gilbert A. Kerr, | Title: Celts Battle Milwaukee for NBA Title | 4/27/1974 | See Source »

...Bucks hope to counter Havlicek's stellar performance with retiring Oscar Robertson who would like to go out of the pros not with a whimper but a bang...

Author: By Gilbert A. Kerr, | Title: Celts Battle Milwaukee for NBA Title | 4/27/1974 | See Source »

...this year's NBA finals, the home court advantage looms as a tremendous factor since the first two games will be played in Milwaukee. The Bucks are riding a torrid streak, having lost only one playoff game. If Oscar continues to play well and Jabbar chips in bucket after bucket, Milwaukee could easily sweep the first two games, creating an edge that the Celts may not be able to recover from...

Author: By Gilbert A. Kerr, | Title: Celts Battle Milwaukee for NBA Title | 4/27/1974 | See Source »

...records, "Another Monty Python Record," and "Monty Python's Previous Record" contained now-classic routines like "Spam," "The Death of Mary Queen of Scots," "The Spanish Inquisition," "The Argument Clinic," and "Eric the Halfabee," but there's nothing like that on this album. The best scene is an Oscar Wilde party where each guest insults the Prince of Wales and then claims someone else made the remark. "Your majesty is like a stream of bat piss," James MacNeill Whistler comments, and Wilde is forced to explain: "I simply meant, your majesty, that when all is dark, you shine out like...

Author: By Paul K. Rowe, | Title: Not-So-Great Snakes | 4/17/1974 | See Source »

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