Word: joans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ever-pregnant Mae, Joan Pape has a more authentic accent than Maggie, but she is not nearly vicious and venomous enough. Charles Siebert's cigar-smoking Gooper is adequate. This couple is not up to the Madeleine Sherwood and Pat Hingle of 1955. Wyman Pendleton's Reverend Tooker is a deft sketch; and William Larsen has the unrewarding role of Doctor Baugh, who, like a messenger in Greek drama, is on hand merely as the bearer of bad tidings. The children and servants perform their bits admirably...
...JOAN SOLMS...
Americans have followed Alexander Solzhenitsyn's distant struggle with the Soviet government and his final, forced hegira into exile with the kind of awe that might attend the trial and burning of Joan of Arc. He is the world's most celebrated writer. The Gulag Archipelago, with massive printings now pouring its cornucopia of Communist cruelties into book clubs and bookstores all over the U.S., seems about to become his most popular work...
...Joan Ganz Cooney, 44, revolutionized children's television in 1969 when she began producing Sesame Street for the Public Broadcasting Service. A former NBC publicity director, she now presides over the nonprofit Children's Television Workshop, Inc., which produces 130 segments of Sesame Street and 130 of Electric Company each year. Elegant and outspoken, Mrs. Cooney has served on the President's Commission on Drug Abuse and was recently appointed to the media-monitoring National News Council. In the past year she has formed two C.T.W. subsidiaries to produce shows for commercial TV and ease Sesame Street...
...great pains to bury the thematic superficiality beneath a superstructure of desperate metaphor and elaborate production. The movie is rendered largely in frosty, antiseptic hues, giving every scene the air of the laboratory. The hospital where the operation is performed on Benson (George Segal) is called Babel. The doctors (Joan Hackett, Richard A. Dysart, Donald Moffat, Michael C. Gwynne) dress in white uniforms that make them look almost military, like shock troops of the future. After Benson has had the operation, which misfires, he runs all over Los Angeles killing at random, until he is violently dispatched by a couple...