Word: joan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sits in a closet, a reminder to Joan each time she opens the door that the future is best consumed in daily bites. Of that period, she remembers now, "I felt as if I were a ship being battered on the rocks, the waves dashing over me incessantly. I felt more tired, more worn out, than ever before in my life. I just don't think I could go through it again...
...Army chaplain offered men to help, and Joan was pleased. The Abbotts held a family conference, where twelve-year-old Daniel declared his opposition: "I want Daddy to know that everything that's been done around here was done by us." So the sprucing up has been reduced to whatever the children can manage...
...Joan says, and she pours her own meanings into those words. What about her return to nursing school? Between mouthfuls of oyster stew at the student nurses' cafeteria, she says emphatically, "I'd drop it in a minute. The very minute he gets home...
...quite literally passed on. Judy Garland, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix-all killed by various ODs. The Beatles? Fragmented. The unheard of Woodstock? While he was gone it was born, matured, grew senile and became a comic epitaph on an old emotion. Some stalwarts remain here too: Streisand, Elvis Presley, Joan Baez, The Stones. But who are the Partridge Family? Cheech and Chong? Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show...
...second half of Lemmings is a brilliantly sustained rock parody called the Woodshuck Festival. One million young people have gathered to "off" themselves (commit suicide) in mass protest. But first they hear from their secular gods. Joan Baez (Mary-Jennifer Mitchell) takes the mike holding babe in arms: "Pull the triggers, niggers, we're with you all the way...just across the Bay...I'm the world's Madonna...I'm needed from Belfast to Bangladesh...