Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chicago-born Joan Mitchell, 34, says that New York has become too "big, successful and public." So in 1958, Painter Mitchell went to live in Paris. There she wages constant battle against the obtrusive image. "I don't want to see anything on the canvas," says she. "For that, I could just as well look out the window." Yet she is still "bothered by the accuracy of my painting," for paint ing should be describable in no terms but painting. "It has to mean something. But I don't know what that means...
...then the painting process takes over ("If it lasts too long, I get bored"). Once, when one such canvas was done, Willem de Kooning, 56, the Grand Old Man of the New York School, dubbed it Christmas Tree, because it had been painted at that time of year. But Joan Mitchell remembered the dark and blue feeling of a Wallace Stevens poem that spoke of peacocks and hemlocks. "So I called it Hemlock, but everyone thought I meant poison...
Going flat out to save the day, California's Linda Meyers, 22, sprawled in the snow in almost exactly the same spot. New Hampshire's Joan Hannah, 20, arms flailing wildly, made it all the way through Airplane only to crash into a control gate at turn's exit...
...brick tenements on Gray Street, near the factory. The back parlor was used only on occasions such as Christmas and other holidays; otherwise the family lived in the front room, Mrs. Reston cooking over a grate, the two children, Jimmy and his elder sister (by four years) Joan, sleeping crosswise at the foot...
...strong impact in the small towns of France, where apparently a Madame Bovary is still born every minute, and the heroine, who will seem to U.S. audiences no more than a roundheeled dunce, has become a national heroine of the French ''a sort of Joan of Arc of the boudoir...