Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...COMEDY PLAYHOUSE (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). "The Blue-Eyed Horse." Is that any way to describe your wife? You bet it is, when she's a compulsive gambler who has somehow been transformed into a four-legged filly. But wishes aren't always horses. Ernest Borgnine and Joan Blondell star...
Most good journalists sooner or later find a beat that pleases them above all others. Joan Didion's territory is a bleak and joyless neverland located somewhere between Despond and Nostalgia. Under her melancholy eye, even the most familiar people and places take on an air of tragedy. Things seem to be falling apart, and the atmosphere is mournfully laden with unrealized dreams and memories of lost innocence...
SLOUCHING TOWARDS BETHLEHEM by Joan Di'dion. 238 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux...
...subculture becomes all the more engrossing for the mingled feelings of anger, pain and horror that the entire experience caused her. Miss Didion suffers constantly, but compellingly and magically. With testiness, she reports on the vulgarity of Las Vegas weddings. With sad humor, she tells of a visit to Joan Baez's Institute for the Study of Nonviolence. With annoyance, she relates the legends surrounding Howard Hughes. With nostalgia, she describes a visit with John Wayne: how, as a round-eyed California schoolgirl, she yearned for some young man to promise, as Wayne had promised a heroine...
...Joan MirÓ, D.A. Spanish painter. His joyful creations have greatly enhanced the artistic resources of this...