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Word: pitman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cohen is best known for his films "The Wiz," "Thank God It's Friday," and "Mahogony." He is a graduate of Harvard's Visual and Environmental Studies Program. Corty directed the television film, "Autobiography of Miss Jane Pitman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: United Artists To Film Harvard Saga | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

...gold commodore's bars on the shoulders, Captain Ernest Wagner, 66, pulled a well-chewed cigar from his mouth to shout his time-honored warning from the end of the gangplank. Then he climbed five decks to the wing bridge adjoining the pilot house and ordered the long pitman driving arms of the 2,000-horsepower steam engine to begin turning the 35-ft.-wide red paddle wheel. American flags fluttered to port and to starboard. Decked out in red, white and blue bunting, the Mississippi Queen pulled slowly away from Cincinnati's Public Landing. The maiden voyage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: A New Queen Reigns on the River | 8/16/1976 | See Source »

...teenager she got pregnant back home in Pitman and gave the child up for adoption...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

WORKING WITH no more pure vocal equipment than Dylan, she digs deep into her Pitman, New Jersey, garbage-cans-crashing-in-the-morning voice to come up with some sultry Piaf and sneering Jagger and belts it out with a kind of controlled epileptic frenzy. Gangfight scuzz. What's not so simple and brutal are the words. She is a poet and her rock and roll is all based on her poetry. A cultural groupie, it is clear that she has swallowed a lot of influences to have borne the devil child of her work. An article in Rolling Stone...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Horse Feathers | 3/23/1976 | See Source »

Open Pores. She grew up in a small, rural community in southern New Jersey named Pitman, as a working-class kid in a family that devoured books and quoted the Bible. While her mother waited tables and her father worked in a factory, Patti kept two younger sisters and a brother occupied with fantasies of Martians and ancient Egypt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Say Yeah! | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

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