Word: jo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mary Jo Bane, associate professor of education and public policy at the Kennedy School of Government, was named yesterday as one of seven semi-finalists being considered to fill an opening as Massachusetts Commissioner of Education, the state Board of Education announced yesterday...
...have many of his neighbors. Jo Ann Kirkland, 42, was arrested and taken away in handcuffs. When a pesky bureaucrat called on Tom Cartier, 41, a retired nuclear reactor construction worker, he tossed the official into a pond where his pet alligator Pocketbook holes up (the man was unharmed). Vows Cartier: "I won't be threatened on my property...
...Jo A. Hall...
...plot might sound sudsy but it has a sting unknown to the soaps. Helen (Valerie French), a middle-aged lady of slippery virtue, deserts her teen-age daughter Jo (Amanda Plummer) to marry a piratical con man in a Hathaway patch (John Carroll) who is visibly her junior. Jo, a kind of spitfiery waif, gets involved with a black sailor (Tom Wright) who ships out leaving her pregnant. A good Samaritan homosexual (Keith Reddin) moves into Jo's dreary unheated flat to care...
Sometimes bitter, sometimes buoyant, Jo is valiantly unresigned to the acrid facts of her life. She fences with her mother, lover, stepfather, friend and fate. Plummer invests her with an unfaltering pulse beat of humanity that radiates through the actress and her fellow players to every member of the audience...