Word: joans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Nowadays it is a rare occasion that brings Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, 93, out for a black-tie evening, but he wanted the pleasure of presenting the President's Citation of the People-to-People Sports Committee to "a little girl" he used to know. She was Joan Whitney Payson, 60, co-owner of Greentree Stable and fairy grandmother of the New York Mets baseball team. The first woman recipient of the Citation admitted a penchant for athletes "with two or four feet," but as for herself, well, she was "strictly a spectator sport." Then, as flashbulbs popped...
Aside from Alfred's exultant leap over the railing Friday night, and Eubolus' unfortunate, though hilarious, fall off the stage Saturday, this production allowed itself only one major piece of stage drama. In the fourth act, the old crippled woman Mainas (expertly voiced by Joan Tolentino) draws the scene of Iphigeneia's death in a panoply of colors: the yellow beard of the priest, the flowers blue and red and yellow; "I saw the white tents on the ocher sand, / And the staring eye-green sea, and all those men / In their silver breast-plates, and the stones / They laid...
...insanity. Robert Stack is the good psychiatrist who thinks patients should be understood. When he speaks, nothing in his entire body moves but his mouth, which is usually saying something like "Don't you see, Miss Terry, what a little affection would do?" Stack's evil opponent is Joan Crawford, the tough head nurse who favors "the intelligent use of force." There are numerous other wooden people: the cute nurse who tells an earnest young doctor, "You talk like a poet," the very sick girl, who talks for the first time in years when Polly Bergen says "We love...
ROUTE 66 (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Joan Crawford plays the pursued wife of a homicidal maniac...
...delegation to an Inter-Parliamentary Union conference, South Viet Nam's éminence brune announced cheerfully that the real aim of her travels was to "disperse all misunderstandings " about her country and the regime headed by her brother-in-law, Ngo Dinh Diem. Sounding like St. Joan in a slit skirt, Viet Nam's fiery First Lady announced that she and her doe-eyed, 17-year-old daughter, Le Thuy, would carry the crusade to the U.S. where she said she would "reeducate Americans" from coast to coast. Sample Nhuances...