Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perverse way, the nation's ailing economy has done for Black Panther Joan Bird what the legal system would not. Last week, after 15 months in jail on charges of conspiracy to bomb public places, friends raised Joan's $100,000 bail and she was set free. The bail was in the form of New York State municipal bonds, and the irony was they had cost Joan's benefactors only...
...them bearer bonds and thus freely negotiable -were a ragtag assortment of New York State Housing Authority and Dormitory Authority bonds. The man who engineered the transaction, New York Attorney Victor Rabinowitz, said he intends to use the method to free some of the remaining ten Panthers. As for Joan, she embraced her mother upon leaving the Women's House of Detention, then whipped off a clenched-fist salute...
...National Committee and the staff of Sesame Street. Lately he has talked incessantly about "getting out and doing something for the betterment of the human race." Last week, with his influence at CBS in decline (TIME, May 25), Mike Dann did get out to become a vice president of Joan Ganz Cooney's Sesame Street operation. His precise duties are still to be determined, and he will earn only about one-quarter of his CBS salary. Dann brings with him scheduling savvy, promotional wizardry (he started in the business in the NBC publicity department) and competitive fervor-all traits...
...clever and strong-willed female than he had given us in the Portia of the Merchant of Venice, a type continued by Nora in lbsen's A Doll's House and by such characters from Shaw's own pen as Ann Whitefield. Major Barbara. Hesione Hushabye, and Saint Joan...
Director Vincente Minelli once set trends in Hollywood musicals (The Band Wagon, An American in Paris). For On A Clear Day, he puts his star through all that is passe. As an Englishwoman falling on her London derriere, Barbra is camp Joan Greenwood. As the clumsy American who washed her brain and can't do a thing with it, she is Jerry Lewis in drag. During the songs, she slips comfortably into recording-studio Streisand, belting and purring Burton Lane's monotonies as if they were melodies. Funny Girl, her first and best film, seemed written for Barbra...