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Once they saw aye to aye on getting out of Viet Nam. Now Folk Singer Joan Baez and Actress Jane Fonda are at war. The break began over Baez's open letter to Hanoi protesting jails jammed with 200,000 political prisoners and the use of captives as human mine detectors. Invited to sign, Fonda demurred. Baez, she explained, was aligning herself "with the most narrow and negative elements in our country, who continue to believe that Communism is worse than death." Retorted Baez: "I don't have any ideological yoke around my neck that blinds...
...JOAN DIDION approaches writing like an Impressionist painter. She places small dots quietly, to form distinct images. But step back from the painting, and the scene blurs. It is as if she washed her canvas with color, softening the detail, leaving an intense but somehow fleeting emotional moment. Like the Impressionists, she seldom makes judgments, preferring to let her images capture and sway the reader...
...company so far has replaced about 3 million tires, or roughly 40% of those estimated to be still in use, and NHTSA Director Joan Claybrook has charged that it is moving too slowly. Says Frank Berndt, the agency's chief counsel: "The recall has been very disappointing...
Chief organizer of the protest was Folk Singer Joan Baez, who sent a letter to 350 onetime activists and celebrities asking them to sign the ad. Among the 84 who did: Daniel Berrigan, Cesar Chavez, Allen Ginsberg, I.F. Stone, William Styron. Others, however, turned down Baez on the grounds that they suspected the accuracy of the reporting out of Viet Nam or that they still could not forgive the U.S. for its role in the war. Jane Fonda would not sign even after a personal appeal from Baez. William Kunstler, perennial attorney for underdog litigants reportedly explained his refusal...
Elkin fans have never needed persuading, though, naturally, the author would like more customers. He was raised in Chicago, studied at the University of Illinois and joined the faculty of Washing ton University at the end of the '50s. His wife Joan is a painter whose portraits subtly combine elements of primitivism with psychological sophistication...