Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Deford has managed to dig out the differences, There She Is is a genuine bit of Americana and camp sociology. The standouts, naturally, are those contestants who have remained in the public eye. Chesty Rosebud Blondell, unsuccessful in 1926 as Miss Dallas, went on to a film career as Joan Blondell. Lee Meriwether, Miss America 1955, still combines television acting with movie roles...
...sentiment for Latin turned up as well in a recent letter to the London Times, signed by 80 international figures, including Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis, Author Graham Greene, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and Opera Singer Joan Sutherland. The Latin rite, they argued, "belongs to universal culture as well as to churchmen and formal Christians...
...JOAN I. SAMUELSON Poway, Calif...
...partisans know her as a raucously passionate crusader for minority rights, Women's Lib and the antiwar movement, a truculent and courageous woman. To the less friendly, she comes on as a sumo liberal, a lady wrestler, Joan of Arc resurrected as an elemental yenta. No one, friend or enemy, denies that Bella Abzug has a certain presence...
...film is based on a LIFE series by James Mills. Its fictional framework does not mesh well with its documentary approach. The screenplay, by Novelist Joan Didion and her husband, Journalist John Gregory Dunne, is disappointing; it never explains enough about the main characters. When a resolutely middle-class girl from Indiana winds up in New York turning tricks for smack, there should be more behind it than the mere suggestion of a repressive family situation. Of Bobby we know still less...