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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...life of a working-class woman, using neither pathos nor piquancy. Widowed by a beer brawl and left with two children, one illegitimate, Norma Rae is trapped in a one-industry, sexist little shitbox of a southern town. Her plight evokes far more sympathy than that of many recent feminist heroines like Erica from An Unmarried Woman or the French nymphets in One Sings, the Other Doesn't. While directors no longer trumpet forth about making black films, many still want to make women movies. Ritt escapes this well-intentioned pot-hole by creating a central figure...
...bright spot on the horizon, though, is the recent election of junior Mike Desaulniers as captain for next season. The choice of Desaulniers is a predictable one, considering his amazing credentials, even though he missed half of the squad's matches because of a broken foot. The Canadian native is two-time American national champ, three years All-Ivy League and has been the number one amateur in North America since birth, or so it seems...
...leadership sometimes seems to be a protective device destined to give him room to maneuver but also keeping him from seeing the real world. Sincerity and warmth, changes of language and diversionary drama replace substantive progress. Surprise is an effective diplomatic device, but most successful "surprises" in recent years have been carefully crafted and virtually assured of success before being sprung...
Journalists and diplomats trying to make sense of it were already calling China's invasion of Viet Nam the "Great Inscrutable War." All things considered, it was probably the most bedeviling and worst-reported major conflict in recent history. The result: misinformation (mostly on casualty figures), unbridled speculation and wild surmise. Items...
...obviously not the bronchitis with which Billy Carter, 41, had been hospitalized that led his presidential elder brother to diagnose Billy at a recent press conference as "seriously ill." Last week the younger Carter, accompanied by Wife Sybil, checked out of an Americus, Ga., hospital and flew to California to dry out at the Alcohol Rehabilitation Service of the Long Beach I Naval Regional Medical Center. Carter, who has admitted guzzling two dozen beers a day, will undergo six weeks of group therapy and psychodrama in order to learn how to deal with his drinking problem. Betty Ford and Billy...