Word: joan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into cliches of fiction before they have become matters of fact. The abundance of persuasive re-examination and the wealth of fine writing that have come from this woman's decade?Anne Tyler and Gail Godwin, Maxine Hong Kingston and Joyce Eliason, Ann Beattie and Elizabeth Hardwick and, yes, Joan Didion?have created a consciousness that is both more aware and a little restless, a little reckless, even, about mistaking gains for guarantees. Critic Janet Maslin summed up the plot of a movie this way: "[The heroine] confronts her new situation. She redefines her relationship with her children...
...speech making was interspersed with big-time pop-music making. The day's performers reflected the cultural complexion of the crowd: young and hip, like Rockers Lin da Ronstadt, Bruce Springsteen and Jackson Browne; tweedy and middleaged, like Folk Singers Peter, Paul and Mary; politically insistent, like Balladeers Joan Baez and Pete Seeger...
Still another approach falls into the whimsical or even bizarre category, such as Judy Kensley McKie's glass-topped tables supported by attenuated, Giacometti-like mahogany dogs. McKie, 38, of Cambridgeport, Mass., sold one of her $3,600 doggy tables to Joan Mondale for the vice-presidential mansion in Washington, B.C. Alan Siegel, 43, of Lake Hill, N.Y., recently exhibited a bent poplar chair that looks, he suggests, like "a smiling bandit." Other well-known "fun" pieces include a table by Wendell Castle, 50, of Scottsville, N.Y., with a carved wood hat and briefcase...
...prosecutor, with his moralistic oratory and his psychiatrist, who essentially agreed with the defense case, was no match for Litman. "In the end," a juror summed up, "it came down to whether . . . you went with your instincts or your heart." Bonnie's mother Joan had a different interpretation: "If you have a $30,000 defense fund, a Yale connection and a clergy connection, you're entitled to one free hammer murder...
...biographies of Lyndon Johnson accuse him of both worldly corruption and spiritual hallucinations. Journalist Ronnie Bugger, for example, cites L.B.J.'s vivid conviction that he was talking regularly to the Holy Ghost-in person, like Joan...