Word: reunion
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Home Again. One of the few telling and truthful moments in the film occurs during a press conference in Port Arthur, Texas, the home town Joplin despised and always tried to conquer. On this occasion, Joplin had returned for her tenth high school reunion ("They laughed me out of the state," she announced on a Dick Cavett show, "and now I'm goin' back"). The questions the local press cooked up were trite-was Janis happy in school? Did she get in vited to the prom? But her answers, out of the direct pressures of the circumstances, were...
...reunion last week of about 150 of their colleagues at Manhattan's International Center of Photography, officers of the American Committee to Free Journalists Held in Southeast Asia reported that a number of the newsmen may still be alive. They are thought to be in the hands of insurgent Khmers Rouges forces in Cambodia, where most of the 23 disappeared after the 1970 U.S. invasion. Committee Chairman Walter Cronkite said that the group was continuing to press diplomats and travelers in Southeast Asia for word of the missing, and had even been approached by a private U.S. intelligence firm...
...those at the reunion were satisfied that either force or quiet diplomacy would bring the missing journalists back. Some Indochina hands argued that the prisoners would never be returned as long as the U.S. continued to prop up the Lon Nol government. Others were less political; Louise Stone -wife of Freelance Photographer Dana Stone, who was on assignment for CBS News-announced that she is preparing her own mission on foot through the area in Cambodia where her husband was last seen...
...Rogers and Hammerstein) of the finale, for example, the first scene introduces the all American boy and girl who proceed in subsequent vignettes to be confronted by lesser characters who try to separate them and to stifle their career plans, but who are finally vanquished by good fortune--a reunion acene brings the lovers back together again for the happy ending. Or during the opera parody, the music might structure itself around a Puccini-type love duet and a Mozartian recitative, accompanying the Romeo and Juliet-type plot formula that stands behind an avalanche of imitative narrative detail...
...Beanpot, however is more than just college hockey. "It's a social event of the first order." Ralph "Cooney" Weiland, former Crimson mentor said yesterday. "The Beanpot is a reunion of old time college hockey fans and I think tomorrow's game could well be the best final...