Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since Bobby's March 16 announcement, all the clan from Rose to Freckles, the Senator's Irish spaniel, has swarmed across the landscape to pursue voters. While Brother-in-Law Stephen Smith and Brother Teddy manage campaign logistics and strategy, Sisters Jean and Pat, Sister-in-Law Joan and Cousin Polly Fitzgerald descend upon the distaff electorate. Materfamilias Rose is one of the wonders of the campaign. "Look at those legs," marveled a 70-year-old man in Los Angeles. Bobby kids her by telling audiences: "My mother has worked in every campaign since McKinley...
...solution was to lampoon 17th and 18th century composers. Schickele avoided trying to spoof modern music, which he thinks is beyond satire; parodies of contemporary pieces "sound just like good contemporary pieces." Another solution was to write music for films (Crazy Quilt) and record al bums (Joan Baez, Buffy Sainte-Marie). An enemy of the idea that every piece has to be "a big deal," he composed deliberately casual chamber works for parties and coffeehouses. Mostly for his own amusement, he wrote ragtime piano pieces and rock 'n' roll songs...
...would tell them I was the adjuster and they'd ask again for the real adjuster. They just couldn't believe it." Many men, and most women, also do not like the idea of reporting to a female boss. Says John Hancock's Joan Keenan: "It's difficult for a man to accept the idea of reporting to a woman at work. He does that at home, and that's enough...
...JOAN M. ESCHENBRENNER Houston...
Then the film changes bosses in mid-screen and Will Penny turns standard after all: Civilized Woman Tames Frontier Man. The formula female (prettily played by Joan Hackett) has a formula little boy, and the threesome winsomely provide the formula scenes-the nursing-his-wounds idyl, the making-him-take-a-bath episode, the surrogate father bit. It is an immense relief when Donald Pleasence turns up as the maniac bad guy with an interest in rape and torture...