Word: friedman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Your Own Best Friend, Newman & Berkowitz (2) 3-The Onion Field, Wambough (5) 4-The Making of the President 1972, White (3) 5-Pentimento, HeLLman 6-Sybil, Schreiber (4) 7-Buried Alive, Friedman (6) 8-Economics and the Public Purpose, GaLbraifh 9-Dr. Atkins' Diet Revolution, Atkins(7) 10-Survive the Savage Sea, Robertson...
...zany creature that the public saw, all that campy, trivial bluster, was real enough in its way, it was far from the substance of her deeper glow," writes Myra Friedman in Buried Alive (Morrow; $7.95). "The hysteria, the extravagance, and the foolish noise were a barren fuss embraced by barren hearts, and it was a lost child who would kick up such rubbish to gain entrance into rooms so empty." Written with a sympathetic intelligence, at times fiercely lyrical, Buried Alive is an honest book about Joplin the idol and Joplin the victim in the frantic, manic disarray of rock...
...back home ecstatically. Enclosed was a poster of the new Janis, slimmer, draped in swinging beads and bracelets. With her 1967 performance at Monterey she gained instant fame, a contract with New York Rock Promoter Albert Grossman, and shortly after the friendship of Grossman's new publicist, Myra Friedman...
Joplin's career was not built through a publicity machine-Friedman did not even have publicity shots of her after her first triumphant New York appearance. Joplin created her own extravagant legend onstage. Unlike singers whose music swells in a slowly rising tide over 15 or 20 minutes, she opened the floodgates in her first two songs...
Abandonment. Only ten minutes after the decision was released, Deputy Solicitor General Daniel Friedman entered the court and handed the clerk the Government's request for a new stay order. Chief Justice Warren Burger suggested that Justice Marshall, who supervises the Second Circuit, should handle the matter, and began sounding out other members of the High Court on the issue. Marshall reached the court by 11 a.m. Some four hours later, after conferring by telephone with other Justices, Marshall issued an order that permitted the bombing to continue. In effect, the Justices informally voted 8-1 to bring...