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DIED. Allen Tate, 79, influential Southern poet, critic and teacher; in Nashville. A Kentuckian who as a boy longed to be another Edgar Allan Poe, Tate was a brilliant, arrogant senior at Vanderbilt University when he was invited to join a group of older poets known as the Fugitives, which included his teacher John Crowe Ransom. Believing that industrialism would ruin the South, Tate was for a time an agrarian and always venerated what he saw as the stability and simplicity of the Old South. He taught at a number of colleges, mainly the University of Minnesota, and helped found...
...record of terrorism in the San Francisco area in the past decade is undeniably remarkable.* In 1969 Charles Manson recruited his obsessed family from the flower children of Haight-Ashbury and led them to the slaughter of Actress Sharon Tate and seven others. Police still have not caught the self-proclaimed "Zodiac" killer who preyed on young lovers in the San Francisco area, claiming responsibility for 37 deaths between...
...President's brother's brew would disappear. Officials of the company, who were paying Carter a reported $50,000 a year for the use of his name and his promotional services, claim that sales went well at first but were dropping off fast. Falls City President James Tate suggests that the beer "sank with the popularity of the President," but poor quality is a more plausible cause. Billy still has an entry in the beverage business: his peanut-flavored liqueur...
...HORSE THIEF'S new wife, Miss Julia Tate (Mary Steenburgen), is not exactly your average female protagonist in a Western. Ambitious and pennywise, Julia lives on a farm outside Longhorn, which lies near an abandoned gold mine bequeathed by her late father. In need of a man to help her strike it rich and return to her beloved Philadelphia, Julia settles for the grungy Moone, despite his atrocious table manners and ravenous sexual appetite...
...familiar amber-and-brown-soaked Texas landscapes doesn't seem a sufficiently compelling reason for making a movie, much less watching it. To have wasted a talent as versatile and fresh as Belushi's in a cameo role is enough cause to send Nicholson back to those gallows, Julia Tate...