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During one period of $15-a-night performances at Manhattan's Café Au Go Go, she met David Geffen and Elliott Roberts, two show biz agents, who with unemployed Guitarist David Crosby later became her record-company president, personal manager and music tutor. "She was a jumble of creative clutter with a guitar case full of napkins, road maps and scraps of paper all covered with lyrics," recalls Roberts. Friendships with performers quickly multiplied. Soon Judy Collins, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Boston Singer-Guitarist Tom Rush were recording songs written by Joni. With Crosby she worked...
...Paris. Inside, another 200 journalists and photographers circulated among the tuxedoed waiters of the establishment, possessor of two proud ** in the Michelin guide. Finally, a representative of the literary ladies and gentlemen who had been deliberating over a luncheon that included foie gras des Landes en gelée au porto, faisan rôti au pommes en liard fromages and profiteroles (enhanced by Bâtard-Montrachet 1970 and Château Nenin 1967) emerged from a private dining room on the third floor, stepped before the microphones and pronounced the verdict. The 1974 Prix Goncourt, the most illustrious...
...doubt that Nixon will try to get away with it. "You are here to say good-bye to us," he said in his tear-stained farewell speech to the White House staff. "And we don't have a good word for it in English. The best is au revoir. We'll see you again...
...Constitution, have granted and by these presents do grant a full, free and absolute pardon unto Richard Nixon for all offenses against the United States which he, Rich ard Nixon, has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969, through Au gust...
Written years before Home, The Changing Room and The Contractor, In Celebration is Storey's most personal play. The first three are exactly ob served, but in them Storey distances au thor and subject with fastidious detachment. In Celebration seems to have been axed out of the playwright's heart. While writing this work, Storey must some times have seen blood...