Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...AUCTIONEER by JOAN SAMSON 239 pages. Simon & Schuster...
...Though Joan Samson's first novel owes its resonance to Shirley Jackson's American-gothic short story The Lottery, the book tends to provoke rather than frighten. The author's poetic imagery highlights the New England scene and characters: "Beneath the high wind, a tongue of water rang against the scoured stones like the wooden clapper in a bell, warning that they were slippery." The Auctioneer becomes less a tale of suspense than a parable of politics. The open questions it poses are as old as society itself: What is the nature of power? What makes people...
Antic Hell. Imagine the two codgers' surprise when Joan of Arc (Nancy Snyder) arrives in blazing armor with sword and pennant at the ready. She tells them that her mission is to recruit two of every species, including them, for a spaceship trip to heaven. After that, all antic hell breaks loose. Instant magic occurs: appearances and disappearances, deaths, resurrections, changes of identity, autokinetic kitchen utensils and finally Joan's celestial levitation. Director Marshall W. Mason moves all the UFOs and the splendid cast at a rocketing pace. The words are manic-puns, syllogisms, answer-and-question games...
...Joan's last advice to the odd couple is "Get out of the house." As for Knock Knock, the advice has to be-get into that playhouse...
...Chase, Md., home, often attended by such close friends as Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Vice President Nelson Rockefeller (who once lent her husband more than $180,000 to help purchase a small paper in California). Could these two luminaries have helped her get the job? No, says Joan Braden, who insists that she never talked to Kissinger or Rockefeller about...