Word: joan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excellent blues harp. From the third album, Trout Mask Replica (with a catfish on the cover), produced by Zappa (after Bob Krasnow and Blue Thumb records overproduced and cheated Beefheart) famous for Doug Moon's delta blues pickin' and Beefheart's singin' on "China Pig," they played "Big Joan Sets Up," a new version, "My Human Get's Me Blues" ("I saw you baby dancing in yer x-ray gingham dress. I knew you were under duress. I knew you under your dress. Keep on comin Jesus, you de bes' dressed.") Trout Mask was the first record...
...dubious credit. In Europe, the only woman director before 1960 that springs to mind is Leni Riefenstahl, responsible for the Nazi propaganda films Triumph of the Will and Olympiad. The situation in the last decade seems to have improved-with the emergence of Agnes Varda, Shirley Clarke, Mai Zetterling, Joan Littlewood, and just recently, Barbara Loden-but the numerical improvement is probably illusory. The fact remains that movie production in this country (and any other country, for that matter) is and always has been under the control of males...
...funny, it somehow smells of self-exploitation. Katherine Hepburn made her first comedy, Bringing Up Baby, in 1938, and spent the forties as a socialite-heroine forever being brought down to earth by James Stewart or Spencer Tracy. Without much flair for humor-until she discovered being mean to Joan Crawford in the sixties-Bette Davis settled for ever-drearier tear-jerkers...
Though there are distinct advantages to the cut and flare of capes (swooping into rooms, for example, is hard going in a traditional overcoat), the style has its drawbacks too. Says San Francisco Chronicle Fashion Editor Joan Chatfield-Taylor: "You have to do your swooping out of doors. In a store, you are sure to break everything in sight." Moreover, cape wearers would do well to stock up on small clutch purses: standard-size pocketbooks held beneath the fabric imply that the lady is either pregnant or a smuggler...
...Like Joan of Arc, Michel Collin was born into a Lorraine peasant family, and like the Maid, he heard voices. "You will become a priest, then a bishop, and finally Pope," he recalls Jesus telling him. To a purported 50,000 followers in Western Europe, Canada and the U.S., Collin is now Pope Clement XV of the "Renewed Church." Paul VI, of the Vatican, is a mere usurper...