Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than beautiful visions," says a tanned, clear-eyed hippie girl named Joan. That hippies can actually work becomes evident on a tour of the commune's vegetable gardens. Cabbages and turnips, lettuce and onions march in glossy green rows, neatly mulched with redwood sawdust. Hippie girls lounge in the buffalo grass, sewing colorful dresses or studying Navajo sand painting, clad in nothing but beads, bells and feather headdresses. (Not everyone is a nudist-only when they feel like it.) A shaggy sheepdog named Grass plays with the hippie children, among them a straw-thatched 17-month-old boy named...
...Laurence Olivier, 60, recovering in London's St. Thomas's Hospital from a mild case of pneumonia and undergoing concurrent radiological treatment for what his wife, Actress Joan Plowright, describes as a "slight" cancer of the prostate; Elizabeth Taylor, 35, hobbling on crutches in and out of Princess Grace Hospital in Monte Carlo after a tumble aboard her rented vacation yacht Odysseia aggravated a chronic case of synovitis (knee inflammation) so badly that she may have to be operated...
...Joan of Arc was put to death on a pile of burning fagots. Gilles de Rais, the French nobleman who fought at her side at Orléans, met a somewhat different end. He turned out to be a fagot who dismembered and burned a pile of little boys-800 of them, by the best estimates of the time. In its outlines, this historical novel is undoubtedly Sade-but-true. More debatable is the book's claim that Marshal de Rais was not entirely a monster, but "the magnified and distorted image of everyman." Everyman? De Rais, whose atrocities...
ROSSINI: SEMIRAMIDE (3 LPs; London). The opera makes almost insuperable demands on the voices and musicianship of the singers, especially the two sopranos, but in this performance Joan Sutherland and Marilyn Home are equal to the task. In the early scenes, Sutherland's voice has a rather thick, clotted quality that soon clears up; Home is superb throughout. For aficionados of bel canto and tortuous vocal ornamentations, this recording is a major event, owing in no small part to Bonynge's intelligent handling of the text and the London Symphony...
...Near the Ocean, the first few pages bring together Goliath, God, Joan Baez, Cotton Mather, Jesus Christ, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Monteverdi, Trollope, civil rights