Word: oscars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Oscar Awards. The oldest of Hollywood's annual, institutional slapping-of-its-own-back ceremonies. Ch. 4, 10 p.m. Live...
When they took over, the generals declared their intention to rule only "temporarily"; they gave themselves three years. Last week Pat Nixon flew into the gleaming, Oscar Niemeyer-inspired capital Brasilia to witness the inauguration of a new President, but the ceremony signaled no easing of the reins. In a brief swearing in, low-keyed President-select (meaning selected by the generals) Ernesto Geisel promised to uphold a constitution that his three immediate predecessors (all generals) had carefully tailored to meet their authoritarian requirements...
Theater in America. "Feasting the Panthers," a look at the life of Oscar Wilde. Ch. 2, 8:30 p.m. 1 1/2 hour...
...Oscar awards will be announced on April 2. At the end of the film, Mouris said, "I made a tongue-and-cheek prediction about my future. So far, everything has happened right; the Oscar would be the last thing...
...ambiguity gives Man on a Swing its suspense and makes it a rather entertaining diversion. What makes it something more than this is Joel Grey's Franklin Wills, a performance of such menacing subcurrents, so shrewdly and subtly conveyed, that it galvanizes the entire film. Grey won an Oscar for his nightclub M.C. in Cabaret, a splendidly sleazy characterization that seemed to grow out of his years in the musical theater. Here he takes a considerable risk, moving in an entirely different direction. He has a lot of broad, bizarre business to carry off- like passing into a trance...