She suggests this explains the low numbers of black women who participated in the feminist movement in the 1970s, pointing to Louis Harris ' Virginia Slims poll done in 1972 for Philip Morris that she says showed 62 percent of black women supported " efforts to change women's status " and 67 percent " sympathized with the women's rights movement ", compared with 45 and 35 percent of white women ( also Steinem, 1972 ).

* Sally Hobart Alexander became blind when she was about 25 and a schoolteacher, during the 1970s, because of an eye disease.

She became known in the 1970s in films such as Hester Street ( for which she received an Academy Award nomination ) and Annie Hall.

In the late 1970s, she began working closely with noted jazz musicians, among them Jaco Pastorius, Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny and Charles Mingus, the last of whom asked her to collaborate on his final recordings.

In 2001, she pled guilty to two counts of possessing explosives with intent to murder stemming from her SLA activities in the 1970s.

Since Hite performed her study during the popularity of feminism in the 1970s, she also acknowledged that women may have chosen the political identity of a lesbian.

Robinson initially served in the Irish upper house as an independent senator, but in the mid 1970s she joined the Labour Party.

* In an episode of the 1970s TV series The Waltons, called the Changeling, ( Season 7 Episode 5 ) Elizabeth Walton, who is turning thirteen, sees a chair a banging up and down, a vase breaking itself, a rag doll changing position, and various other strange activities, which disappear immediately after she declares her fear and anger on the night of her slumber party.

O ' Leary also worked in the early 1970s to exclude trans people from gay rights issues because she felt that rights for trans people would be too difficult to attain.

Another trademark of Nicks's is a Dickens-style gentleman's formal top hat, which she began wearing in the late 1970s.

In the 1960s and 1970s she enjoyed considerable success as a singer of German chansons, which she often co-wrote.

Byrne now lives in the same apartment building she has lived in since the 1970s.

During the 1970s, she was paired with Richard Burton in the last De Sica-directed film, The Voyage ( 1974 ), and a remake of the film Brief Encounter ( 1974 ).

She was the face of Chanel No. 5 in the late 1970s and she caused sales of the perfume to soar in the United Statesso much so that the American press, captivated by her charm, nominated her as the world's most elegant woman.

In 1973, she gained her first major television role as Emma Callon in the successful 1970s series The Onedin Line.

While she continued to make films in the US and the UK throughout the 1960s, her career languished in the 1970s, where she appeared in a number of horror flicks.

McClintock's research became well understood in the 1960s and 1970s, as researchers demonstrated the mechanisms of genetic change and genetic regulation that she had demonstrated in her maize research in the 1940s and 1950s | deadurl = no

But with " Coronation Story ," written in the 1970s, she also has Johnson and the prince meeting in 1761 when Charles Stuart secretly attends the coronation of George III, violating her own continuity.

From 1968 up to the 1970s, she also recorded more contemporary material according to classic pop songs with her albums Liza Minnelli ( 1968 ), Come Saturday Morning and New Feelin ' ( both 1970 ) from A & M Records.

For several years in the 1970s, Hollander lived in Toronto, where she married a Canadian antique dealer and was a regular fixture in the downtown core.

In the early 1970s, she recorded a primarily spoken-word album titled Xaviera!

In the 1970s, she returned to Romanyà de la Selva in Catalonia and finished the novel Mirall trencat ( Broken Mirror ) in 1974.

She first came to prominence in the early 1970s with critically acclaimed roles in the local stage productions of Hair ' and Jesus Christ Superstar ( in which she was the first African-American to play the role of Mary Magdalene ) before launching a solo career.

A $25 billion advertising budget in an $800 billion economy was envisioned for the 1970s here Tuesday by Peter G. Peterson, head of one of the world's greatest camera firms, in a key address before the American Marketing Assn..

Its modern development was initiated in the 1970s when it adds a modern instrumentation to the image of the electric guitar, synthesizer and drums.

During the 1970s and 1990s, there was an epistemological shift away from the positivist traditions that had largely informed the discipline.

The system was first discovered at the end of the 19th century, and first excavated and studied in the 1970s.

Braudel's work came to define a " second " era of Annales historiography and was very influential throughout the 1960s and 1970s, especially for his work on the Mediterranean region in the era of Philip II of Spain.

By the 1970s the shift was underway from the earlier economic history to cultural history and the history of mentalities.

This claw-shaped anchor was designed by Peter Bruce from the Isle of Man in the 1970s.

The Concord School of Philosophy, which closed following Alcott's death in 1888, was reopened almost 90 years later in the 1970s.

( In the 1970s Ruelle and the Dutch mathematician Floris Takens produced a new model for turbulence, and it was Ruelle who invented the concept of a strange attractor in a dynamical system.

This program culminated in the proofs of the Weil conjectures, the last of which was settled by Grothendieck's student Pierre Deligne in the early 1970s after Grothendieck had largely withdrawn from mathematics.

To store matte information, the concept of an alpha channel was introduced by Alvy Ray Smith in the late 1970s, and fully developed in a 1984 paper by Thomas Porter and Tom Duff.

One is on Medny Island ( Commander Islands, Russia ), which was reduced by some 85 – 90 %, to around 90 animals, as a result of mange caused by an ear tick introduced by dogs in the 1970s.

Another instrumental called " Brother " was used as the theme to the BBC Radio 1 Top 20 / 40 when Tom Browne / Simon Bates presented the programme in the 1970s.

In the 1970s Korner's main career was in broadcasting.

During much of the 1970s Roma's appearance in the top half of Serie A was sporadic.

Most of the drugs in the second generation, known as atypical antipsychotics, have been developed more recently, although the first atypical antipsychotic, clozapine, was discovered in the 1950s and introduced clinically in the 1970s.

Until the 1970s there was considerable debate within psychiatry on the most appropriate term to use to describe the new drugs.

The park was a popular attraction during the 1970s but was abandoned in 1993 due to financial difficulties.

The town was redeveloped in the 1970s with a new town centre layout and traffic system.

for torpedo manufacture ( which were test-fired in Loch Long ) and then in the early 1970s was the scene of the Plessey sit-in.

While it was not the actual " Birthplace of Hip Hop " – the genre developed slowly in several places in the 1970s – it was verified to be the place where one of the pivotal and formative events occurred.

The wave of arson in the South Bronx in the 1960s and 1970s inspired the observation that " The Bronx is burning ": in 1974 it was the title of both a New York Times editorial and a BBC documentary film.

Soon after, BBS software was being written for all of the major home computer systems of the late 1970s era-the Apple II, Atari, Commodore and TRS-80 being some of the most popular.