Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Folk Singer Joan Baez and Carlos Santana and his Latin rock band had a captive audience last week. The occasion: a concert they gave at California's Soledad prison set up by Rock Impresario Bill Graham. The 600 prisoners who curled up on the grass of a playing field were not shortchanged. Baez, 36, sang songs like Raze the Prisons Down and passed out carnations. She then danced with a few prisoners and invited "two brothers" to come play with the band. After the final note, Baez said farewell by yelling loud and clear: "I hope...
...other Crimson duo or Rita Funaro and Joan Gumowitz (second doubles) fell victim to an unlucky draw, meeting the number one team from Princeton in the first round...
WHEN HARPER'S MAGAZINE published a segment of Joan Didion's novel, A Book of Common Prayer,it seemed that here was another normally-incisive writer succumbing to just one more California fetish. While the National Enquirer alone had been interested in investigating Henry Kissinger's trash, everybody--and we're talking here about the well-established publishing world--wanted to know about Patricia Hearst's closet sex life and continual menstrual cycle. (The California papers followed this latter issue quite closely and the ever-staid New York Times devoted several columns in its Sunday magazine to the constant period...
Upcoming concerts: Leo Kottke and Leon Redbone this Friday at Symphony Hall; Joan Baez and Jesse Winchester May 21 and 22 respectively at the Orpheum; and America and the Pousette-Dart Band May 23 at the Music Hall...
...distinguish it from its acclaimed forerunner. Rudolph's script is very conscious of the need to deal with its characters on their own terms, without any touch of caricature. A few of Tewksberry's characters bordered on becoming stereotypes; Chaplin's featherweight BBC journalist and Shelley Duvall's L.A. Joan are cases in point. Rudolph skirted this chronic problem by allowing his cast considerable freedom to exercise their improvisational skills. While he did bring a finished script to the filming phase of the production, Rudolph still placed a premium on preserving a certain force of spontaneity. And the final product...