Word: selma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...homosexual actor from the off-off-Broadway café scene, and he provides acerbic comic relief. Mark (Michael Sacks) is a pill-popping veteran of Viet Nam trying to sort out the dubious good from the known evil of the war. Rona (Kaiulani Lee) is the bruised child of Selma, Ala., and Woodstock, and Carla (Shirley Knight) is an ex-go-go dancer who wanted to go at least as far as Marilyn Monroe. In an altogether sterling cast, the performance of Miss Knight should receive a star of spun gold. Perhaps the most unusual "Kennedy" child...
...been a journalist since 1948 and had worked for Newsweek for 11 years, eventually becoming Los Angeles bureau chief. As he says himself, he "had a front-row seat on some of the most fantastic things that have happened." When the civil rights battles were raging in Selma, Birmingham and Oxford, he was there. When Medgar Evers, Martin Luther King, John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, Newsweek sent Fleming. When Nixon took his campaign on the road, Fleming went along...
...came to Boston in 1961 and I saw this place and I told people. You know something? This place is going to go sky high one day the way people are cramped together.' People said, That would never happen in Boston--that's something for Selma, Alabama.' There's a lot of resentment going down now because there's a failure in this state to give the people the services they pay for especially with regard to education...
...busing cause, state representative Raymond Flynn; compares the situation in Boston today to that facing the revolutionaries 200 years ago, students and left-wing politicians formulate their own plans to "fight the racist offensive" and to "keep the buses rolling." For them Boston '74 is to be compared to Selma '64 and Little Rock '54. They have a different vision of the "freedom trail" but in the long run, it appears almost as narrow as Flynn's and the South Boston...
...Alias Selma...