''Loose Change'' (

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: Garden City) is a non-fiction biography from 1977 by the American author Sara Davidson. The book follows the changing fortunes, lives, friendships, attitudes and characters of three women, beginning with their meeting as freshmen at the

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in the 1960s. Sara (Davidson), Susie, and Tasha experience the radical changes that went through American culture in that era, observing or being involved in

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s, drug use, the

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Movement, the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention,

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, free sex, and the popular music of the times. Over the course of the book, they become closer and then diverge in their viewpoints and propinquity.

Television miniseries and NBC technical error

A three-part

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, also called ''Loose Change'', was televised February 26 to 28, 1978. Season Hubley and

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starred. When the miniseries was originally televised, NBC broadcast the third part accidentally on February 27 to its East Coast affiliates due to technical difficulties; after 16 minutes of the third part being played, the error was discovered and the network aired the second part, in its entirety. (In the next scheduled episode of ''

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'' on March 11,

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referred to the foul-up during the opening monologue.) In a separate incident, NBC affiliate

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, censored part of the first part of the miniseries by removing three minutes. This caused issues in

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, because at the time all NBC programming to Idaho and Montana was routed through Salt Lake City; the general manager of

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was irked that KUTV was able to dictate what was or was not seen on his station. The miniseries was re-edited and cut down to four hours (from the original six) and re-broadcast as ''Those Restless Years'' July 8 and 15, 1979.

References

* Charles Baxter, "Xavier Speaking", in ''The Third Coast: Contemporary Michigan Fiction'' (James Tipton and Robert E. Wegner, eds.), 1981, pages 11–12. 1977 non-fiction books American biographies Books about the San Francisco Bay Area Doubleday (publisher) books History of Berkeley, California University of California, Berkeley {{US-bio-book-stub