Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE ARE SOME bright spots, however. The Brattle Theatre reopened last week after a two month absence, and the new management plans to offer an eclectic repetoir of classic, foreign and independent films, as well as live performance. The opening night celebration the 1952 Joan Crawford thriller Sudden Fear was followed by films and performances by such local musical acts as Treat Her Right and Roger Miller. Future programming includes such themes as film noir, women directors and the Japanese New Wave...
Last year's election generated controversy when then President of the Board of Overseers Joan T. Bok '51 sent a letter to Harvard's 200,000 alumni warning them that the board would be greatly changed if "specific issue" candidates were elected. It was later revealed that President Derek C. Bok, no relation, had asked the Overseers' head to sign the letter...
...crime rate. But prison does at least keep criminals off the street. Home confinement cannot guarantee that security. Some data, tentative and incomplete, do suggest, however, that felons placed on intensive probation are less likely to commit crimes again than those placed on traditional probation or sent to prison. Joan Petersilia, a Rand Corp. researcher, says the recidivism rate of such offenders is impressively low, "usually less than 20%." And many keep their jobs, she adds. "That's the real glimmer of hope -- that in the long run these people will become functioning members of the community...
...Milan when she was a 17-year-old named Laura Biancolini. When she married Khashoggi in 1978, she changed her name and converted to the Muslim faith (as had Soraya). Buxom and statuesque with blue, almond-shaped eyes, she is self-possessed and cool. She dresses according to the Joan Collins Dynasty handbook, complete with diamonds and decolletage. With her, as with her husband, more is definitely more. Her idea of casual is to wear a one-inch ruby-and-diamond ring with matching ruby earrings. Her 40- carat diamond wedding ring covers the lower half of her ring finger...
...LETTERS: Joan D. Walsh (Chief); Amy Musher (Deputy...