Word: street
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ghosts were as finger-snapping fun ny as Saundra McClain (Christmas Present), being haunted would be more a dream than a nightmare. Yet the highest praise of all has to go to Robin Wagner, whose sets, as clever and as intricate as Chinese boxes, encompass half of 125th Street. Wagner was the unseen star of such mediocre musicals as Ballroom and On the Twentieth Century, and he gives special luster to this Christmas card from Harlem. - Gerald Clarke
Though his church stands across the street from Mississippi's state capitol and his congregation includes the current Governor and three of his predecessors, Pollard's pulpit does not emphasize politics. He does speak out occasionally about racial equality and has always insisted on an open membership policy, though First Baptist says it has no record of how many members are black. Pollard sees the U.S. in trouble, and one of his persistent themes is how to save American democracy in a hostile world. He is likely to point out that "the best in vestment...
...pleased, the heavyset, attractive blond worked as executive secretary of the Greater Trenton Symphony Orchestra, served as vice president of the Friends of the New Jersey State Museum, and sat on the board of the Salvation Army. Her restoration work almost completed, E.J., 37, finally moved into her Mercer Street home last September. She told friends: "I want to see Trenton regain its dignity...
...first, the house seemed ideal, a perfect setting for EJ.'s Queen Anne furniture. At night, the street was softly illuminated by gaslight. Then E.J.'s luck began to change. First someone ripped the radio out of her sports car. Then, in mid-November, a far more serious episode occurred: a bearded man in his 20s broke into the house and raped her. Her reaction was bizarre. "If I had to be raped," she told a friend, "I'm glad that he was the man who did it. He didn't abuse me. He didn...
...broadcast was denounced by House Speaker Tip O'Neill as "regrettable and dangerous," and Congressman Robert Bauman of Maryland said NBC deserved the "Benedict Arnold award for journalism." NBC Washington Correspondent Ford Rowan accused his employer of "irresponsible journalism" and resigned in protest. The Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor questioned NBC's news judgment. CBS and ABC up braided NBC for violating a standard TV news canon against awarding terrorists an unedited platform for their views. "That is a right we don't even give the President of the United States," insisted CBS News...