Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Freshman striker Joan Elliott's career is now just two games long, but she was one player who had quite an afternoon...
...second half, freshman striker Joan Elliott took a pass from one of the fullbacks and slipped the ball through to wing Kelly Gately. Gately crossed to St. Louis, who outfought a defender for the ball and booted it over the goal line...
...shoes, white shirts and Paisley ties," who invents the wave-tossed nuke while he is "standing wet, naked and soapy in his shower." This, perhaps, is inspiration of a sort, but a wet and soapy sort. Eckert came out of the shower, "ate his breakfast and told his wife, Joan, that he wanted to launch nuclear power plants as, in effect, ships on the ocean. 'There you go again,' she said...
...course, for America's foremost contemporary reporter-turned-essayist, Joan Didion. When Didion undertakes a character profile -- her piece on James Pike, the Episcopalian Bishop of California, for example -- she doesn't begin with the subject, his family, philosophy, or even a recitation of his favorite food (as did Janet Flanner in a 1936 profile of Adolph Hitler). Rather, Didion begins the piece with a word about her own recollection of Pike's church, and then characteristically proceeds to lace the narrative with what she calls elsewhere, "always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable 'I.'" "The greatest study of Mann is Mann...
...breakfast with reporters in McLean the day after the convention, Kennedy slouched in an armchair and sipped coffee in his spacious, beamed living room. Joan strolled into the room and sat at his arm, relaxed and confident. For the first time, he willingly reflected on what had happened to him in the campaign, and what might be his future in politics. Said he: "After the early primaries, we knew the chances of getting the nomination were remote. But programs and issues that we were raising were beginning to take on a life of their own, and I saw them expressed...