Word: usual
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...never had an idyllic marriage," says Cotner, but "whatever quarrels we had were always made up amicably after we'd had a chance to cool off." At least it remained that way through ten years of marriage. Then, in 1965, a family squabble took longer than usual to simmer down. While still angry, Mrs. Cotner decided to get back at her husband by filing a sodomy charge against him. But before the case came to court, Mrs. Cotner changed her mind and tried to withdraw her complaint. She was too late; the state said that it was a criminal...
...those other un-unusual and unexciting pageants that parade across the screen this time of the year. There again was the line of dimpled sweet young things, gowns aglitter with sequins, hair piled high and smiles frozen in place from hours of practice before the mirror. There was the usual Congeniality Award and the inevitable quiz to test "poise, conciseness, speech and intelligence" (Host Mike Douglas: "Suzanne, what do you think of the way TV covers the news?" Suzanne: "I think it's fabulous"). And finally, of course, there was the big-moment-all-America-is-waiting-for when...
...usual dreary effort to show that the program was meant to stress brains over bustlines, film clips showed "panels of experts" testing the girls in some of the eleven criteria of the "complete, modern, intelligent young lady." These include such crucial skills as cake decorating, highway-safety practices and color coordination...
...producers in the business. Detroit's Motown Records, formed eight years ago by Berry Gordy Jr. with a $700 loan, last year grossed a soulful $30 million. Gordy's slick, carefully controlled "Motown sound" (noted for its rhythmic accent on all four beats of the bar instead of the usual R & B emphasis on alternating beats) has launched, among others, Diana Ross and the Supremes, Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson and the Miracles, Stevie Wonder, and Martha and the Vandellas...
...write on the riots in general, but he found them too diffuse to handle and decided to focus on the single incident. Even so, the episode, as he describes it, "is so complex, the cast of characters so huge, that I simply could not assume the author's usual stance of divine omni science." So he tells the story mostly in the words of the witnesses and makes his own observations in the form of ironic subheads. It took him about six weeks to win the confidence of the participants. The time was well spent, for the subjects ultimately...