Word: joans
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Knack for Thrift. Another designer whose clothes Mrs. Carter sometimes buys is Eleanor Brenner, also a relatively unheralded name in fashion. She has put together the Inaugural costumes for Joan Mondale, wife of the Vice President-elect. Like Rompollo, Seventh Avenue's Brenner has a knack for simplicity, practicality and thrift. Mrs. Mondale, she says, "likes clothes that give her mileage"-which is perhaps the reason the new Second Lady has been stocking up on Brenner dresses for the past four years. A typical purchase is a knit dress ($130) that can be worn plain or with a blouse...
Spokesmen for Murdoch at the Post said yesterday they could not explain the ouster of Wilson and the other member, Mary Joan Glynn, a cosmetics executive for the Revlon Corporation...
Screenplay by JOHN GREGORY DUNNE, JOAN DIDION and FRANK PIERSON...
...John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion had the clever notion of resetting this story in the rock world, where heady glamour and careening careers furnish the closest contemporary equivalent of the Hollywood flush years. Barbra Streisand and her inamorato Jon Peters weighed into the project as Dunne and Didion drifted away. Batteries of writers and directors were exhausted before the present version was put together under-or perhaps around-Director Frank Pierson (The Looking Glass War). Yet, what the serious quarterlies call "the authorship" of A Star Is Born is unclear. Responsibility must surely rest with Streisand and Peters...
...president. But at the last moment. Pfeiffer told Carter's aides that "personal reasons" precluded her acceptance. One possible woman appointee: Patricia Roberts Harris, a Washington attorney, who could be named Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Two other women were interviewed by Carter for possible Cabinet posts: Joan Manley. Time Inc. vice president and publisher of TIME-LIFE Books, who might be under consideration for Commerce; and Duke University Economist Juanita Kreps, a possibility...