Word: joan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...America. Apart from political enlightenment, one of the things that killed it was the growth of the art market. Now that any list of collectors' favorites in current art would have to include Nancy Graves, Agnes Martin, Louise Bourgeois, Susan Rothenberg, Elizabeth Murray, Jennifer Bartlett, Cindy Sherman and Joan Snyder, it is fatuous to talk as though women in 1987 formed an oppressed aesthetic class. About half the substructure of power in the art world, from museum curators and dealers to critics and corporate art advisers, is female. No talented woman has real difficulty getting her work into a serious...
Dabbing tears from her eyes, Joan Collins was the perfect picture of the wronged woman. "I never met a man yet who was able to take care of me," she said sadly. "I've been taken advantage of by men since I was 20." Then, staring across the courtroom at her estranged husband, she added, "Men have a tendency to change when they get married." Collins was not rehearsing Dynasty, but the lines she spoke last week sounded as if they came from a soap opera -- The Bold and the Beautiful, perhaps...
...bold was Husband No. 4 Peter Holm, 40, a onetime Swedish pop star who, after being kicked out of their former home, picketed Collins in protest. JOAN, YOU HAVE OUR $2.5 MILLION, 13,000-SQ.-FT. HOME WHICH WE BOUGHT FOR CASH DURING OUR MARRIAGE, read his long-winded placard. I AM NOW HOMELESS. HELP...
...clothing and accessories, $6,000 for entertainment, $7,000 for household help and $4,000 for travel. "Peter just broke down what they spent in the marriage, $160,000 a month, and divided it in two," explained Holm's lawyer, Frank Steinschriber. "They lived a lifestyle you'd expect Joan Collins to have...
...LETTERS: Joan D. Walsh (Chief); Amy Musher (Deputy); Marian Powers (Administration...