Word: joan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There goes Joanie. It was billed as the clash of the late-night titans, but just seven months after Joan Rivers went head to head with her old benefactor Johnny Carson, the star of The Late Show is being dimmed. The acerbic comedian last week became the latest in a long list of contenders who have tried and failed to dethrone the reigning monarch of the midnight airwaves. In response to increasingly disappointing ratings, Fox Broadcasting Co. decided that beginning this week Rivers was through as the regular host, although she may alternate with a roster of as-yet-unnamed...
They've done it again. Last year, it was Joan Bok's unprededented and improper "electioneering at the polls." This year, instead of crassly putting partisan election leaflets in with ther Board of Overseers mailing to alumni, University powers-that-be had Harvard Magazine print a one-sided interview with Harvard Treasurer Roderick MacDougal, giving the University's antidivestment argument. No rebuttal arguments allowed, no interviews with pro-divestment Overseers candidates...
...most controversial as well. Joan Peyser's Bernstein: A Biography (Morrow; $22.95), published this week, has been causing ripples of rumor and anticipation in the music world for months. A wide-ranging examination of the composer-conductor's life, works and milieu, it tackles such touchy subjects as Bernstein's Jewishness, his support for left-wing causes and, in what is surely the book's most provocative allegation, his bisexuality...
...LETTERS: Joan D. Walsh (Chief); Amy Musher (Deputy...
Rush, a lean, easy-moving, mustached fellow of 46, got his start as a folkie in Cambridge, Mass., when he was a sophomore at Harvard. Joan Baez was beginning to make a name in Cambridge then, and both of them played at a folk hangout called Club...