Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Joan G. Wolfe Vienna...
...smiling when Ted announced his intention not to run for President, but Joan Kennedy's personal misfortunes continue. Driving in McLean, Va., in the early afternoon last week, she failed to react in time to a traffic signal and plowed her white, 1971 Pontiac convertible into the rear of a green Capri, which in turn collided with still another car. No one was injured, although the damage to the three cars was estimated to be close to $1,400. Joan was exceedingly apologetic, unhappy but not tearful...
Then the police arrived at the scene. Everyone else filled out forms and drove off, but Joan was escorted in the patrol car to a nearby police station, where she submitted to a breath analysis. Then...
LANCELOT OF THE LAKE is the work of Robert Bresson, a great and trying film maker. Just as one would expect from the creator of Pickpocket and The Trial of Joan of Arc, there are scenes and images here of a terrible, severe beauty: knights dying in battle or competing in joust, a mailed hand clutching the handle of a weapon, a horse's eye going wide in terror. These visions occur, however, not in an epic adventure, but as part of a moral speculation in miniature. Bresson's ascetic attentions converge on the fateful romance of Lancelot...
...drowning in alcohol out of fear that he may be a homosexual. Brick's father, Big Daddy (Fred Gwynne), is dying of cancer, and the childless Maggie is in a steely duel with Brick's brother Gooper (Charles Siebert) and his fecund wife Mae (Joan Pape) for the imminent in heritance of "28,000 acres of the richest land this side of the valley Nile." What evolves is a series of confrontations that would reduce the forthcoming Foreman-Ali fight to a game of pattycake...