Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Writer-Director Haskell Wexler, an Oscar winner who has built a reputation for himself as one of Hollywood's best cinematographers (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Loved One), scraped together $600,000 for this low-budget portrait of a country in conflict with itself. He chose Chicago, with its thousands of pent-up blacks and displaced Appalachian whites, as a symbolic seat of the conflict and began shooting last summer in a loose, almost documentary fashion-just as the convention confrontation was reaching a peak of frenzy. The uncomplicated plot turns on the developing love affair...
...past year, the once monolithic United Mine Workers union has rumbled with unrest. Dismayed by their leaders' cozy ties with the coal industry and angered by their seeming indifference to health and safety problems, miners in West Virginia walked off their jobs last winter in an unauthorized strike that supported legislation to compensate them for "black lung" ailments. Last week the rebellion moved into a new phase when Joseph A. ("Jock") Yablonski won the first round of his fight to oust W. A. ("Tony") Boyle, 64, from the $50,000-a-year U.M.W. presidency that he has held since...
Died. Leonard Woolf, 88, author, editor and husband of Novelist Virginia Woolf; of a stroke; in Rodmell, England. His Hogarth Press published not only his wife's novels but also poetry of T. S. Eliot, Freud's Collected Papers, and works of E. M. Forster and Robert Graves. Woolf's five-part autobiography (last volume to be published this fall) is considered a monument to a generation reared in peace, stunned by World War I and the great Depression, yet remaining optimistic that a new age of reason would dawn. In one anecdote, he recalls...
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK cuts up about the period of marital adjustment in Warwick, N.Y., through Aug. 10; Salem, Va., Aug. 19-23; Cleveland Musicarnival, Aug. 18-23, with Virginia Graham; New London, N.H., Aug. 18-24; North Tonawanda, N.Y., Aug. 25-30; and Wallingford, Conn., Sept...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? spits vitriol for those who enjoy someone else's marital problems in Middletown, Va., Aug. 5-17; Olney, Md., Aug. 5-24 and Garden City...