Word: joan
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Fancy cars and duds are Stewart's own contribution to his image, although he resents criticism of his indulgences ("Joan Baez shows up at concerts in jeans and sandals-the only difference between her and me is that I own up to the money"). Other aspects of his image please him less, like never being allowed to be seen in public drinking anything as mild as a beer. "It's funny, because people think I'm drunk when I go onstage. But my musicians and I can't destroy the myth, so we act drunk...
...Joan Tuttle of the ACLU said that the petition drive proves that there will be strong constituent support for O'Neill when "he comes out definitively for impeachment...
...grew up in the Catalonia Orwell later wrote about, and he remained a loyal Catalan right up to his death last week at the age of 96. Catalan "was the language of troubadours," he once said, "and of free spirits." He liked to quote a Catalan poet, Joan Maragall, who wrote: "To take flight to Heaven, we must stand on the firm soil of our native land." And he sometimes told about Luis Companys, president of Catalonia under the Spanish Republic. Casals had met him while conducting concerts for the Workingmen's Concert Association he'd organized and playing...
...Joan Spitale, a representative of the telephone company's business office, was unable to estimate the cost of the error when contacted yesterday. "The calls will come out of the computer as unlocated tolls and will be investigated and rebilled to the proper people," she said. She said that it may require several months for the extent of the charges to be known due to a backlog of such calls at the phone company...
Colorful Crew. A number of other features are far more satisfying. The front of the magazine is dominated by staccato reportage under the heading "The Insider." The terse items on politics, journalism, show business and consumer affairs are uniformly lively and informative. A full-length piece by Joan Barthel attacking the stratospheric costs of medical care is solidly done. Ruth Gruber contributes an absorbing profile of Valery Panov, the Russian dancer whom Soviet authorities are persecuting because he wants to emigrate to Israel...