Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shouting begins when Joan Kennedy enters the hall; it is clear that the Kennedy forces want some preaching tonight. They are in no mood for deals--when Carter transportation secretary Neal Goldsmith announces that "compromise unity language is circulating on the floor," they boo. When Carter consumer affair representative Esther Peterson ends her defense of the Georgia presidency by yelling "Four more years," there are enough jeers to positively melt the heart of Rep. John B. Anderson (R-Ill.). And so, by the time Rep. Barbara McClusky (D-Md.) introduces Kennedy, they are ready. The orchestra plays "Macnamara's Band...
Here, Ernotte has invented a little epilogue, with a leap forward in time, as Shaw did in Saint Joan. Richard, wearing a modern gray (Nazi?) overcoat and a pair of spectacles, appears over the horizon and slowly walks downstage. The slain Catesby starts to resurrect from the dead, and there is a sudden complete blackout. Richard, against all tradition, has the first word in this play; must be also have the last...
...Joan D. Flocks Gainesville...
...Orinoco and the Mississippi-combined. And its inhabitants are not exactly the folks next door. For inexplicably resurrected on both banks of the mysterious river is every soul who ever lived, from hairy cave dwellers to modern Homo sapiens, from the totally unknown to such famous figures as Joan of Arc, Karl Marx and Hermann Göring...
...gritty, drug-fueled scenes from her marriage to Actor Christopher Jones. In Haywire, a memoir that has become a TV film, Brooke Hayward (daughter of Actress Margaret Sullavan and Producer Leland Hayward) immortalizes a family history of divorce, breakdown, suicide. In Mommie Dearest, Christina Crawford depicts her mother, Actress Joan Crawford, as a promiscuous lush given to brutal child abuse. In I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can, TV Producer Barbara Gordon publicizes the story of her ad diction to Valium. In Memoir of a Gambler, Play wright Jack Richardson details his flings with Las Vegas whores. Rhythm...