Word: joan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Someone finally falls for this deception--Thomas E. Bates(Denholm Eihott) a harried middle-aged writer of mass-produced inspirational verse. His daughter Patricia(Suzanna Hamilton)has been severely brain damaged by a hit-and-run accident four years previously, and is now taken care of by her mother(Joan Plowright). Pretending to be an old friend of Patricia's named Martic Taylor, the young man gradually insinuates himself into the Bates weary household through an artful combination of flattery and false innocuousness...
...break that gave the Riverwomen the victory was a charging call with about ten minutes left in the contest Joan Gettemeyer walloped the ensuing penalty shot past out of Harvard goalie Janet Judge's outstretched arms. The goal broke a 1-1 tie and put St. Louis ahead for good...
...flight of stairs lined with old theatrical prints, he enters his study, a warm and comfortable room, and slowly settles onto a couch, elevating his legs to minimize the effects of phlebitis. A portrait of a pretty dark-haired woman hangs on one wall; that is Joan Plowright, his third wife and companion of 21 years, painted when she was playing Masha in Chekhov's The Three Sisters, which Olivier directed. Next to one of the windows is a huge picture of a young man dressed in Romeo's tights. He is impossibly handsome, with a long-lashed...
...make up her mind, attends a coeducational private school in Hampshire. Weekends are busy, and there is a constant stream of guests. "You never know who you'll find there," says one close friend, Interior Designer Kenneth Partridge. "Larry will say, 'Who's coming?' and Joan will reply, 'Whom have you invited?' 'I don't know,' he'll say, and then when someone comes by he'll say, 'Well, I must have invited...
...four-man selection committee for the Wallace Stevens lectureship--which has been awarded in the past to rioted poets Robert Penn Warren and Adrienne Rich--decided to reconsider Wulcott's invitation after reading about the sexual harassment incident in an October New York Times article. Joan Hall a UConn professor and a committee member, said shortly after the utricle appeared...