Word: melinda
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Proponents of prime-time teaching say familiar television examples make schoolwork less imposing and more interesting. "Reading becomes exciting," asserts Melinda Douglas, assistant to the general manager at KNXT-TV, CBS'S Los Angeles affiliate, "because students can imagine those words being spoken by an actor or actress on television." Opponents point out that the minimal degree of reading skill and concentration required by TV teaching is not adequate training for serious study of literature or history, or for the effort necessary to master subjects that cannot be easily popularized, like math and chemistry. They also fear that television...
Suddenly, the screen shows a beautiful, starlit night in peaceful Muncie, Indiana. A five-year-old boy (Teri Garr) and his single mother (Melinda Dillon) are drifting off to sleep to the sound of crickets. Then strange things start to happen: the child's electric toys begin to stir, household appliances go haywire, and objects start moving about in the air. The fearless boy is amused and seems to notice a mysterious presence in the room. The commotion ceases, and the child's sluggish mother awakens only in time to run after her little boy who has gone trampsing across...
...year to edit. The locations?several of them deserts?spread from California to India; the launching-pad set in Mobile, Ala., used in the film's climax is six times as large as Hollywood's biggest sound stage, Spielberg "was forever screwing up schedules like a whirlwind," says Melinda Dillon, the film's female lead, recalling the strain. "He worked all night, every night?catching a few hours' sleep when he could. He had his Winnebago trailer set up to screen films, and he was always running 2001, and when he got tired of that, he would run cartoons." null...
...union organizing, eventually saving up enough money to buy a house and bring his family out to California. But soon after this Woody, whose repertoire by now includes a large number of political protest songs, runs into censorship problems and gets himself fired. His wife, Mary (sensitively played by Melinda Dillon), has endured years of poverty (and loneliness) on the Texas plains, and seeks security desperately; she can view Woody's stubborn refusal to compromise and his frequent wanderings from home only as selfish personal indulgences, and she finally picks up the kids and leaves for Pampa, never to return...
Recently my wife and I went to Montgomery, Ala., to pick up our first child, an adopted daughter. As we got in the car to leave, I whispered to her, "Melinda, thank heavens you never knew, you never knew...