Word: jo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Damita Jo answered Jim Reeve's He'll Have...
Talk was never Edward Hopper's strong suit. His wife Jo, the chatterbox in the family, once observed: "Conversation with Eddie is just like dropping a stone in a well, except that it doesn't thump when it hits bottom." Hopper's eloquence was visual. When he died last week at the age of 84, in the Washington Square studio where he had lived for the past 54 years, he left a half-century-long portrait of the workaday face of America. He had captured it with all the homely honesty of a foursquare realist...
...design: a stuffed leopard animated by a windshield-wiper mechanism that moved its head and tail. Hiding in the bush, Kortlandt's crew waited until a group of about 30 chimps passed nearby and then pulled the mock leopard into view. "Hell broke loose," says Zoologist Jo Van Orshoven, a member of the expedition. "With enormous yelling and hooting they started to attack the leopard in an organized and coordinated...
...Jo materialized out of a five-minute affair on a haystack. Her father is dead. Her mother, more feverish at lovemaking than at housekeeping, traipses around with an alcoholic salesman. So Jo takes a lover. Unfortunately she chooses a sailor. She winds up without a husband, with child...
...those pleasant people were terribly miscast. Jo is what we want to be when we're kids. She's not offensively fresh (she doesn't alienate the world in the proces). But she is effective (she insults the grown-ups enough to hold her own place). Noelle Caskey seemed more put-upon than pushy. She played a snubnosed sweetie...