Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bitchy Joan Rivers is the funniest woman in America...
...Associate Editorial Chairman Errol T. Louis '84, Magazine Editor Thomas J. Mayer '84, Assistant Magazine Editor Lavea Brachman '84, Assistant Features Editor David L. Parker '85, Associate Business Manager Jonathan M. Weintrauo '85, Advertising Manager Mathew A. Ross '85, General Manager Thomas L. Roach '84, Special Publications Manager Joan I. Cha '85, Production Manager Anthony R. Miner '85, Assistant Production Manager...
SALVADOR by Joan Didion...
...Joan Didion's talent thrives in hot places: Southern California, Hawaii, Mexico and the Central America of her novel A Book of Common Prayer. She finds flowers of evil where most people see posies, and she can fix a place or a character with some of the sharpest prose in contemporary American writing...
During her two-week stay in EI Salvador last summer, writer Joan Didion must have gotten angry too. But she channeled this emotion productively and produced Salvador, an account of her visit to a country that is slowly being destroyed by inbred antagonisms and the misguided efforts of other nations to serve the causes of self-interest and peace at the same time Salvador is short and quickly read Yet Didion's eloquence and the tragic, almost absurd nature of her subject gives this book a weight and power that transcend the limitations imposed by the number of pages. Didion...