Word: joan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rolling Thunder Revue with Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, and a cast of thousands the place: local bars and concert halls the time: "watch the parking meters...
...unlikely that we'll ever find out the story behind his reunion with Joan Baez. Bob and Joan go back a long time. In the early days in the Village, he thought her voice too pretty, that the world was ugly and needed to be sung about in harsh tones. But she fell in love with him -- he aroused this wierd maternal feeling in her, the way he seems to with most women who he meets. She took him along on one of her big tours and endured him when he got drunk and self-indulgent (he was once booed...
...assuming they would perform together. But when they got to Europe she was shunted aside. Dylan was contemplating a change to electric music, becoming increasingly suspicious about the press, and drawing closer to himself. It was a prolific period for him, but he was hell to be with and Joan finally picked up and left...
...took a Raleigh, N.C., jury 78 minutes last summer to agree that the state had not proved that convicted Burglar Joan Little had murdered her guard with an ice pick during a jailbreak. Was the case as weak as that swift verdict implied? Not at all, claims, of all people, Little's attorney, Jerry Paul. Paul told the New York Times last week that though he thinks Little is innocent, the acquittal proved less about justice than about the ineptness of the prosecution and the power of $325,000, which the defense spent on the case. The judge contends...
Such talk may go over well on the lecture circuit, where Paul has become something of a celebrity. But some lawyers believe that Paul's remarks may hurt Joan Little. An appeals court is expected to rule next month on the conviction that originally put her in jail. This time around the judges will doubtless examine the case very closely to make sure that no one will be able to complain about their justice. If the conviction is ultimately upheld, Joan Little will face up to ten years in jail...