Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVEN BIGGER PROBLEMS, however, are raised by the screen-play, a collaboration of the husband-and-wife team of John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. Working from Dunne's novel, the screenwriters apparently felt obliged not to graft any artificial eloquence onto characters who would not normally speak that way. Which is fine. The problems arise when Dunne and Didion substitute a peculiar, grunting short-hand that limits the characters and leaves the curious unenlightened. The poor dialogue, combined with the writers' need to explain a complicated and ever-changing plot, result in a dusultory and lifeless narrative...
Although the building's exterior has not been changed, chief architect Joan Goody said the project should be though of as a "total renovation...
Losing one's temper at times, even unjustly, doesn't make a parent a monster. I'm not necessarily an admirer of Joan Crawford, but my sympathy lies with her for not being able to strike back at her accuser from the grave...
...describe the reactions of French artists to the Spanish Civil War. Spain was the test of political alignment for artists and intellectuals. It inspired the most famous political image in modern art, Guernica, and evoked some remarkable images from Spaniards other than Picasso, such as Salvador Dali and Joan Miró. Guernica could not be lent to this exhibition, although one gets some hint of the fervors from Miró's design for a poster, Aidez l'Espagne, and from Dali's hallucinated Cannibalisme d'Automne. But most of the work by French artists in support...
...first goal, Landry displayed the hustle which has helped her become the squad's leading scorer. Twenty minutes into the game, the Lexington native drilled a low drive which the sprawling Smith goalie, Joan Bigwood, just managed to deflect. The ball popped into the air and bounced off the goalpost into the crease. But Landry followed up her shot and easily tapped in the rebound...