Original Publication – Newsweek: October 28, 1974 Verna Fields is not a glittering name on a movie marquee. She’s neither a hot young director nor a big-time producer. But at…
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“Listen to that!” exclaims Steve Wonder. “I should tape it.” The blind singer’s amazingly acute ears have picked up a telephone conversation across the room where a friend is telling…
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Original Publication: Newsweek – August 26, 1974 Waylon Jennings has traveled most of the back-country roads during his stormy career, breaking the format of the slick Nashville sound and paying…
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Original Publication – Newsweek, August 26, 1974 Death Wish is the film to see if you’ve just been raped, mugged, or ripped off. The most controversial movie since “The Exorcist,” it…
Read moreOriginal Publication: Newsweek — August 12, 1974 Dewey Thompson, 79, of Sugarloaf Hollow in eastern Kentucky, was sitting on his back porch whittling a fine-looking rocking chair, just as he’d…
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Original Publication – Newsweek, August 5, 1974 Alison Lurie likes to read case histories of deviants – “You know, the nuts-and-sluts school that’s no longer fashionable. I like to know…
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