Word: variously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Rubinowitz skied two phenomenal races. For starters, she finished fifth in the five-kilometer individual race, a little more than one minute behind the winner, Middlebury's Lindsay Putnam. Then, in the four-times-five-kilometer relay, Rubinowitz skied on a team of individual performers from various eastern schools. The team finished third, as Rubinowitz clocked the second-fastest individual time in the race...
...womens' movement, as it evolved in the late '60s and early '70s, brought into full view a whole slew of problems and injustices, of which both men and women are the victims. Some seem relatively straight-forward, such as job discrimination; some were enormously complex, such as the various issues revolving around human sexuality. Unfortunately, as Gunther's article suggests, the latter type is being milked for all it is worth in the commercial world...
...ward, presided over by a short, plump nun named Sister Godfrida, of the Apostolic Congregation of St. Joseph, decided to compile a secret diary about the peculiar goings-on there. In their record they listed not only the continuing deaths and the circumstances surrounding each one but also various incidents of what appeared to be extreme maltreatment of old people. To their horror, the nurses gradually realized that the common element in all these episodes appeared to be their cherub-faced Sister Godfrida...
...Princess Grace is serenely back on the boards in the U.S. for her first American stage appearance since 1952. This time Grace, 48, is helping launch International Wildlife Year by giving a six-city series of poetry readings entitled Birds, Beasts and Flowers-with box office receipts going to various charities. Along with her costar, British Actor Richard Pasco, Grace gave her first reading in Pittsburgh and had a tough time making the Kelly pipes project. For her next number after the poetry reading, Grace will oversee the June nuptials of Daughter Caroline and Philippe Junot from a seat...
Still, the various ups and downs of Crossed Swords are not important; the real issue raised by the film is why it was made at all. There just isn't much of a market for a movie like this in the U.S. any more: family films are too slow for adults and too tame for children raised on ABC sitcoms and Star Wars. By making a fetish of booking such movies, Radio City Music Hall has in effect willed its own death...