Word: personal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...miles--big deal. After all, she finished 217th out of 800 runners, even if she was the first woman to cross the tape. She's still the same person. She said the last few miles were tough. "They didn't go past as swiftly as I wanted them to," she says. Her legs are a little sore. Her mom was thrilled. So was she. And now she can fulfill her dream--running in the Boston Marathon...
This is the golden age of television. For the creative person the world is his oyster. There are no bounds of time; there are no bounds of physical presentation. During the '50s, Playhouse 90 was on every week, and the image of that stands out in everybody's mind. There were great things done then, but there are also enormously great things done now. Television is much better now than it was in the '50s. It's a healthier medium...
...motion pictures. QB VII was the first major novel. It ran seven or eight hours. It's interesting to watch how we have moved into areas of social significance. There is a television movie coming up called The Cracker Factory; it is a story about a person who goes through a breakdown. And one called Child Stealing, which is about couples getting divorced and stealing the children from their mates...
...more rewarding to occupy her energies and her realistic, feisty if untutored mind. The character of Reuben, the organizer, represents a triumph of sorts. He is the first accurate representation onscreen of a type that has proved to be dramatically elusive: the New York Jewish intellectual-activist. Such a person is usually the odd man out, an exotic everywhere in America beyond his native streets. Yet frequently he is capable of winning out over prejudice and suspicion with his quick wit and his obvious humanity...
Nobody seems to have any idea how much taxes he pays in a year, Bloch finds. All each person knows is what is withheld from every paycheck. The loudest complaint is that the IRS tables did not provide for enough withholding in 1978, so many taxpayers still owe the Government money, and that hurts. Some people simply do not file returns and hope that the IRS does not catch them...