Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after the game there's more wear and tear, with thousand of miles to travel during the 82-game NBA season. And being on the road so much has its effects...
...first course in the personal films spread will be brought out at 7:30 and 9:30 p.m. Friday. Entitled "New Portraits of Women," it consists of four specialties: Wedding in the Family," "Woman of a Thousand Fires," "Love It Like a Fool," and "Liz Swados: The Girl with the Incredible Feeling." This entree helps define the meaning of "personal films;" they are films which accentuate an individual style or deal with a single individual...
...Woman of a Thousand Fires" by Chick Stand is the most poetic and difficult to understand. It requires the viewer to have some prior knowledge of its subject, and that knowledge is hard to come by: the topic is the repetitive and ritualized daily tasks of Latin American women. Images of a woman trapped, seeking freedom, swinging a chicken madly around in circles, cutting its entrails out, require more than one viewing, even though the first may keep the viewer trapped for some time...
...spirit of conviviality and unity among the audience that was in no way contrived or superficial. People felt at home and at ease. Everyone in the auditorium had a common bond--a bond not shared by strangers outside the theater, walking around the Square, more than a thousand miles away from the nearest cottonfields. Inside, the air almost smelled of cotton. Boots, cowboy hats, girls with lots of make-up, southern accents and other signs of the South abounded. Everybody there felt, well, just real good...
...ticket dinner dance. Some 2,500 Imperial Valley farmers paraded with tractors, pickup trucks and buses, waving signs pleading for "fairness to farmers." They wanted presidential support against a court action that enforced a long-ignored 160-acre limitation on farms watered by federal irrigation projects. A thousand more demonstrators protested other issues, including the neutron bomb, inadequate welfare programs and high unemployment. Carter used his speech to defend his record, including his controversial tactics in dealing with the Soviet Union on SALT and in pressuring Israel to reconvene the Geneva conference on the Middle East-policies on which...