Posts Tagged ‘1970s’

Roll Bounce

Sunday, June 15th, 2008

Roll Bounce or the disco roller skating movie with Bow Wow, Nick Cannon, and Meagan Good. Is a teen movie of unusually sweet disposition, set in 1978 Chicago among a group of South roll bounce . S something very sweet about Roll Bounce but it has nothing to do with the roller . 10.09 in [...]

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Barbara Dafoe Whitehead In The American Interest

Tuesday, June 10th, 2008

With sociologist David Popenoe, she co-directs The National Marriage Project, a research and public education program based at Rutgers University. Whitehead grew up in Appleton, Wisconsin. In American social history from the University of Chicago. The thirty-something woman of today is three times more likely to be single than her counterpart of the 1970s. For [...]

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Harold Russell From The Best Years Of Our Lives

Tuesday, May 27th, 2008

Services operating in Vietnam, ending the war as the principal air superiority fighter for both the Navy and Air Force, as well as being important in the ground-attack and reconnaissance roles. The Phantom continued to form a major part of U.S. Military air power throughout the 1970s and 80s, being gradually replaced by more modern [...]

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Emile Hirsch’s Career Going At Mach Speed

Friday, May 9th, 2008

It wasn’t until 2002 when Emile made his big-screen debut in the film “The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys” alongside Jodie Foster and other young talents, Kieran Culkin and Jena Malone. Based on the novel written by Chris Fuhrman, the film is about a group of friends who attend Catholic school in New Jersey during [...]

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Obama Hurts Detroit’s Feelings. Get Over It.

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Get over it. Oh please. As if Detroit and the Big Three are above reproach. Obama simply shared a memory of a dismal ride from the 1970s, a Granada. Even if you are loyal to Ford or GM or Chrysler, you can’t argue they never ever produced a dud, especially in the 1970s. My first [...]

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Oregon Polls

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Exit polls from North Carolina and Indiana show that the demographic fault lines among voters remain the same. Osama had to apologize for calling small town residents bitter , but he is running for President and cant afford to offend major voting blocs. Back in the 1970s I worked in a health clinic on Obamas [...]

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Will Robinson, 1st Black Coach In Division I, Dies At 96 (AP)

Monday, April 28th, 2008

Robinson died at a Detroit hospital, Pistons spokesman Matt Dobek said. Robinson had been sick for 15 months and in a nursing home for more than a year, Dobek added. Robinson broke a racial barrier in the 1970s when he coached Illinois State. Those teams were coached by Chuck Daly, who took the job after [...]

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Esalen Massage

Monday, April 28th, 2008

The author does not pluralize Esalen, but there are many Esalens, certainly more than four, perhaps as many as nine. Esalens salad days of influence were the 1960s and 1970s when it gave impetus to the New Age movement, a designation despised by founders Murphy and Price. Esalen continues to operate in the 2000s, mainly [...]

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BAY AREA SHOPPERS ASKED TO LIMIT RICE PURCHASES

Thursday, April 24th, 2008

The World Food Programme said this week that the poor would be hardest hit by rampant food price inflation, and Asia in particular could soon confront the threat of a silent famine. Samak Sundavavej, the controversial Thai Prime Minister himself a television chef said yesterday that his Government would do nothing to jeopardise [...]

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Soul Singer Dies Of Kidney Failure

Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008

Wilson died of kidney failure at Kaiser Permanente Medical Centre in Fontana, California, his son, Tony Wilson, said. “He was always singing,” his son said. “He would call me in the middle of the night with a new song that he had written.” Wilson was born on June 19 1939, in Meridian, Mississippi. Wilson’s first [...]

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The Big Interview: David Haig

Monday, April 21st, 2008

Haig deserves his relaxation time at home after coming through the most tiring six weeks I have ever had in the profession. It is a role he has played before, more than 30 years ago when he was a drama student at LAMDA in the 1970s. Those were the three ingredients that I carried with [...]

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Boris Said - 6 5 , 6 9 With The Afro

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

His hair tried to approach me at Daytona this year while Tony and Boris were talking but I wanted none of it. He was talking all sorts of junk like This is my year punk and Hey Boris, 1970s OJ Simpson called, he wants his hair style back. I just took the high road and [...]

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Kim Dae-Jung In The City Of Roses

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

“The world is supporting my Sunshine Policy, which suggests problem settlement through peaceful means like dialogue,” Kim said. These developments are playing a significant role in promoting inter-Korean peace and ending the Cold War.” The story of Kim Dae-Jung in Korea is, of course, nothing short of a rollercoaster. Born in Korea’s poorest province, here’s [...]

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Earth Day On The National Mall

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

Senator Bernie Sanders and a reunion dinner featuring Richard Ayres and John Adams, two of the founders of the Natural Resources Defense Council who humorously recalled their experiences launching the NRDC in the early 1970s. The three-day conference included two dozen panels and workshops that examined todays environmental challenges and strategies for the future. Back [...]

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Steve Prefontaine

Saturday, April 19th, 2008

Steve Roland Prefontaine (January 25, 1951
May 30, 1975) (nicknamed Pre) was an American Olympic runner who inspired a running boom in the 1970s
along with contemporaries Frank Shorter and Bill Rodgers. As a freshman at Marshfield High School in Coos Bay,
Oregon, Prefontaine found some success in cross country running. His training, however, might have been too [...]

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CHRIS EVERETT

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Sunday, March 30We held our Fantasy Baseball Draft at my house a week ago Sunday. Our league dates back to the late 1970s in one form or fashion, and it has to be one of the longest-running fantasy or rotisserie pools in existence. We normally have 15 teams but added a 16th this year to [...]

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Trucker Strike 2008

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

Symmary:
Friday, March 28, 2008 Trucker Strike Coming? It would be a wonderful thing to see. But so far, nobody has been able to settle on a date for pulling the big rigs off the road. “If they were to shut down (trucking) for a couple days they’d give us a blank check.” Benjamin Cooper, 77, [...]

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