Word: joan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Joan Benoit-Samuelson, the Olympic gold medalist in the marathon who set a world record last year in the America's Marathon, was named the winner of the Sullivan award as the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union's top athlete...
...resulting images are like windows into a distinctly shaped but largely unrecognizable world. They have more than a little in common with surrealism; one thinks of the Pandora's box of little involuntary creatures, buzzing and defecating and copulating, that Joan Miro opened in the 1920s. And like those dreambugs, Winters' fungi and spores have a distinctly human air. In their aggregation, they refer to social structures: hives, crowds, nests, colonies. They suggest hierarchies and sometimes conflict. But all this is decidedly muffled, submerged so far in the paint that it hardly works as allegory. Winters does not want...
Former business manager Joan H. M. Hsiao '86 says "We're predominantly wealthy Jews from New York and we hurt in terms of not having a very diverse group. It's really a sad factor...
...each displays a facet of the city's theatrical strength. A Lesson from Aloes seems a more overtly political play, more about the inequities of the government in Fugard's native South Africa, than in its 1980 Broadway production. Yet it sacrifices none of the personal agony in Joan Allen's portrayal of a woman literally maddened by the intrusions of the police state. As a black friend who may or may not have been betrayed by the woman's husband, Glover makes the suffering less classically tragic but more universal. On Broadway, James Earl Jones envisioned the character...
...believes little attention was given to deterring the larger evil. "It's an absolute shame that the Supreme Court has to take such a gruesome crime to make a social statement," says Deputy Kings County Planner Bill Zumwalt, who had been a member of Marlene's high school class. Joan Pegues, assistant city editor of the Hanford Sentinel, puts it more simply: "When you say 'Hillery' around here, people turn purple...