Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wedding, hunt deer and then go off to fight the war in 1972. It was the fifth Oscar for The Deer Hunter that night. The audience could only guess at the complexities of feeling that ricocheted around John Wayne's mind as he handed over the prize...
...YORK--The Point Reyes, Calif, Light, a weekly newspaper with one full-time reporter and a circulation of 2700, won the 1979 Pulitzer Prize for public service yesterday for its investigation of Synanon, the controversial West Coast drug and alcohol rehabilitation center...
John Cheever's collection of 51 short stories written since 1945 entitled "The Stories of John Cheever" won the prize for fiction...
Herbert L. Block of the Washington Post--better known as "Herblock"--won the prize for editorial cartooning for the third time in 37 years...
...drama prize went to Sam Shepard for his play "Buried Child," a study of a disintegrating family in rural Illinois...