Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Women's Wear Daily a few days ago, Teddy Kennedy's wife Joan bristled "at the suggestion that a political marriage is difficult to manage." Said she: "It's not a big deal at all. Politics is not a problem. It's his job. And a political wife can share it more than a woman married to a businessman who works a 9-to-5 job." But in a Good Housekeeping series on the wives of potential presidential candidates, Joan speaks freely of her continuing involvement in psychotherapy in response to the emotional strains and pressures...
Carmines' music is extravagantly eclectic. He writes songs about war, Joan of Arc, peace, Gertrude Stein, pornography, Jesus Christ and W.C. Fields, all in a stylistic gamut that runs from Monteverdi to Montenegro. His favorite form is an extension of the turn-of-the-century ballad, on which he imposes anything that catches his fancy: tangos, hillbilly hymns, blues, echoes, jazz, gospel shouts, Puccini pastiches...
Similar misconceptions distorted the images of my other childhood heroines. I once envisioned the daring aviator, Amelia Earhart, in helmet and goggles to be at least as regal as Joan of Arc. Now I read how she crashed to an ambiguous death in the Pacific, amid rumors that she was on a secret espionage mission against Japan. And I read that Pocahontas, after heroically saving John Smith, eventually married a settler she may not even have loved, only to die in England three years later--just twenty-five--overcome by a bitter winter. And I pictured Lotta Crabtree, the actress...
...long last she may have found a script that fits her talents. In Play It As It Lays, a movie currently being adapted from Joan Didion's novel, Tuesday portrays Maria, an actress in search of a breakdown in the vast emptiness of Southern California. "She knows the role so well she could phone it in," says Director Frank Perry (Diary of a Mad Housewife). "I tested hundreds of girls for the part, but I always knew it had to be Tuesday...
...husband, Darnley, for instance, a womanizing lech as Vivat has it? Or was he a homosexual as the movie has it? (He seems to have been the former.) The popular version of the story, accepted by those raving romantics Schiller and Donizetti, portrays Mary as a high-brogue Joan of Arc and Elizabeth as the Wicked Witch of the West. The new versions, sometimes wildly inaccurate in other ways, do at least correct that longstanding libel against poor Bess. The truth is that Mary probably was an accomplice in the murder of the philandering Darnley and that she constantly schemed...