Word: joan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joan Didion's novel, Play It As It Lays, in which the heroine opts out of suicide for daily drives up and down the California freeways...
...plug in his right ear. Up stepped a reporter after the ceremonies. "How long have you been wearing a hearing aid, sir?" he asked. Johnson beamed. "Fine, fine. Glad to see you," he said. . . . The moment they met, everyone could tell that this was the real thing. Actress Joan Crawford and Lassie found each other as winners of Benrus Citation Awards "for outstanding achievements based on time"-the lady as the star with the longest time span in films (45 years), the dog as star of the longest running drama in television (17 years). Gushed Miss Crawford, when she recovered...
...request audiences. Though half of the members agreed to see her, Francoise noted wryly, "I was received with the exquisite politeness one reserves for one's inferiors. Privately, my adversaries would say to me: 'You'd be right for the Academy if you were Colette or Joan...
...East Germany''s other rulers. For more than five years, they have kept him in limbo. He is allowed to live in peace and runs something of an intellectual salon in his two-room flat. The unorthodox Marxist philosopher Robert Havemann visits regularly, and Folk Singer Joan Baez called on him in 1967. But Biermann is not permitted to publish his works, perform in public, or travel outside the German Democratic Republic. He is never mentioned in the East German press. "I am a nonexistent person," he told TIME Correspondent George Taber in East Berlin. "I have been...
...problem in the '70s will not be enough players. Where there are beautiful women, men can always be found. Far more threatening to the reviving industry is a misreading of the entrails, a miscalculation of public opinion. To return to the stereotypical Joan Crawford flick ("Let me alone, Paul, I'm a lost crusade") would be to drown in a sea of sorghum, to turn off the young, the middle-aged and the old. To generations brought up on television, every plot is known; to a sexually liberated society, every shock has been felt or consciously bypassed...