Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...battle of the moms began with a signal from P.A.T. Leader Mrs. Joan Addabbo, a 28-year-old mother of two. The parents broke through police lines into P.S. 149. But police inside the entrance locked arms, formed a human chute that funneled the crowd into the auditorium. As each parent entered the hall, Nevins shouted: "You have no legal right to be in this building. You are under arrest." Outside, 300 P.A.T. pickets turned nasty as dark-green police vans rolled up to a side entrance. When police tried to herd their prisoners into the vans, someone shouted...
...JOAN ASHMAN...
...What a Lovely War grins like a skull at the follies of World War I. An animated musical documentary, directed with blazing skill and ingenuity by Britain's Joan Littlewood, Lovely War is constructed like a theatrical montage. Period songs, sketches, gauze-clad music-hall girls and blown-up film stills fill the stage while a lighted news ticker across the backdrop impersonally taps out the monstrous dance of death: ALLIES LOSE 850,000 MEN IN 1914. Mockingly ironic, magnetically fascinating, Lovely War defies a playgoer to settle back in his seat. Tender, frolicsome and tragic, it turns spilled...
...firm hand that guides Lovely War is Joan Littlewood's, the musical's voice and mind are often Bertolt Brecht's. By decking her men and women in Pierrot and Pierrette outfits, she puts commedia dell'arte garb on the Brechtian notion that in the 20th century the individual is no longer a meaningful entity. It was Brecht, too, who recognized that a nostalgic song put in a satirical context could then be savored for its sentimentality even while it was being bitterly spoofed. Songs like Pack Up Your Troubles and Keep the Home Fires Burning...
Married. Marshall Field III, 23, son of Chicago Newspaper Publisher Marshall Field Jr. (Sun Times, Daily News); and Joan Best Connelly, 20, Manhattan socialite; in Rumson, N.J., two months after Marshall Jr.'s third wedding...