Word: woman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pass?" asks Barbara Kopple. She is fiddling with desk drawers in the Orson Welles. "No, sorry--it has to be signed," She shuts the desk abruptly. Kopple is the Academy award-wining director of Harlan County, USA, chosen last month as best documentary, and her credentials are impressive--sound woman on Hearts and Minds, camera, sound and direction on Winter Soldiers, and camera woman Gimme Shelter--all three classic documentaries of the 1970s. Kopple is a veteran of the anti-war movement, "from the first Pentagon march where they clubbed us," and sincere in her leftism. "I grew...
...match was something of a landmark in Harvard golf, as a freshman woman Leslie Greis played number one. She lost her match five and four. However, she had her moment in the spotlight when she stood on the same first tee where Walter Hagen began his playoff round to win the U.S. Open in 1919, and outdrove both her male opponents before the players from all three squads...
...Battle Creek, Mich. It has been traveling all night from Peoria, 111. Several band members drag themselves into the clean sheets of the hotel. Dolly sleeps on the bus until 2:30 p.m. She appears in the hotel dining room looking perfect and is promptly mobbed. A woman named Ruby asks for Dolly's autograph. Dolly signs. An hour and many autographs later, Ruby gets up to leave. Dolly yells, "Bye, Ruby. Have a nice day." Ruby is radiant...
Next comes Jolene, which has a haunting Ghost Riders in the Sky flavor. People recognize this song, a big hit for Dolly in 1973. "This is about a woman who tried to steal my man," Dolly cries out. "She pulled my wig off and almost beat me to death with it. I fought that woman like a wildcat. I had another wig, but I didn't want another man." People love it. The flash of Instamatic cameras is almost as blinding as Dolly's finery. It is not a Nikon crowd...
Back in the dressing room, Dolly eagerly signs autographs. A woman asks her where she got such great fingernails. "It's easy," laughs Dolly. "Thirty-five dollars a set." Then it's back to the bus for the long trip home to Nashville. Dolly settles into her quarters and a long night's talk. "It's a gimmick," she says, pointing to her huge wig. "It takes pure gall to go around under this. I always had a big hairdo. When the style went out, I still loved it. Wigs are great. I can get ready...