Word: joan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Added to the money distributed last term in Joan, and grants, the council has awarded more than $28.500 to fund a total of 61 projects this year. At least $3500 in additional funds will be distributed this spring to qualified applicants...
...good idea, but it's unrealistic," said Michele Woods, chairman of Princeton's Undergraduate Student Government (USG). Woods added that the USG's executive committee considered a similar act last year, "but Dean [of the College Joan] Girgus encouraged moving in a more realistic direction...
...American popular-music industry was having its annual pageant. The program was about to end. Joan Baez walked onstage unannounced. As if she were lost in time, Baez driftingly began to sing Bob Dylan's anthem: "How many roads must a man walk down,/ Before you call him a man .../ The answer, my friend, is blowin' in the wind,/ The answer is blowin' in the wind...
...Joan Bacarella of Englishtown, N.J., testified that Vigliotto proposed a day after they met in February 1981, urging her to divorce her estranged husband. She said that she realized her "prince had turned into a frog" when he borrowed $1,600 in cash and $40,000 worth of inventory from her clothing shop and then failed to return to a motel where she was waiting with her mother and three children. Another of Vigliotto's wives, Sharon Clark of Angola, Ind., told the jury that she was abandoned barefoot and $49,000 poorer in an Ontario motel three weeks...
...paintings and drawings from celebrated fellow Colombian Fernando Botero. There are lively, offbeat articles: Gore Vidal reporting from the Gobi Desert, Paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould speculating on why .400 hitters have disappeared from baseball. More predictably in a culture magazine, there are discerning reviews by Novelist Robert Stone of Joan Didion's Latin American reportage in her book Salvador, and by Staff Editor Walter demons and Los Angeles Times Music Critic Martin Bernheimer of Wagnerian opera productions for film and television...