Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...must seriously question if Scenes from a Marriage is in truth a film. In content, it is a child of the stage, most obviously Strindberg's Dance of Death, Ibsen's A Doll's House and Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? More unsettlingly, its form has been imposed by the demands of TV. Bergman wrote and filmed it as six 50-minute segments for Scandinavian television. Telescoping the series in length to just under three hours blurs some of the narrative line, and Bergman's unrelenting reliance on talking heads will...
...busing of black children to schools in white neighborhoods. In the city that had done so much to advance the cause of civil rights, a group of Ku Klux Klan members arrived last week to stir up more trouble, as did a contingent of neo-Nazi white supremacists from Virginia...
Strife is familiar enough to West Virginia, a state with a history of chronic coal-mining wars. Early in September trouble erupted again. Pickets closed coal mines and truck terminals in the Charleston area and surrounding Kanawha County and in five neighboring counties, keeping 6,000 miners out of work. Beatings and shooting broke out on the picket lines. Construction on the Appalachian Power Co.'s massive new plant came to a halt. Protesters held mass meetings and disrupted public bus service in Charleston, and at the height of the furor a quarter of Kanawha County schoolchildren stayed...
...stories concern the Richardson family, from the birth of Sam and Laura's youngest son, Question, in Virginia to a family reunion almost twenty years later in Venice. Sam joined the State Department to escape from his parents' life as Long Island country squires--hunting, fishing and putting up Christmas trees. Although he soon becomes disaffected with his job, he is compensated by the life of a diplomat: a few years here, a few years there, never staying in one place long enough to grow restless or attached to the surface of things. His three sons--Scobie, Matthew, and Quentin...
...founder and chief is Walter W. Morrison, 29, who began organizing his enterprise in 1969 while still attending the University of Virginia Law School. During the summer he served as a clerk in a 15-man Hartford firm and occasionally came into contact with lawyers from smaller firms. "Their hours," he observed, "are eaten up by running an office and gathering the facts on a case...