Word: joans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...classes he conducts privately in Sherman Oaks, Calif., where he lives, and in three-day seminars at colleges around the U.S. Students spend $250 to learn from a man who has written for such TV series as Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life and for Comedian Joan Rivers' appearances on the Tonight Show, and who staged The Kraft Music Hall and The Carol Burnett Show...
Singing the national anthem, about 70 students stood nearly an hour in the office of the Radical Student Union after an afternoon of shouting matches between CIA supporters and protesters, said school spokesman Joan Ashwell...
...milestones for nine artists. Mondrian's Composition in a Square with Red Corner sold for $5.06 million, the second highest price ever paid for a 20th century painting (Yo: Picasso, a self-portrait, went for $5.83 million in 1981). Renoir's La Coiffure was gaveled down at $3.52 million; Joan Miro's Woman in the Night at $2.53 million; and Henry Moore's Reclining Figure (Festival) at $1.76 million. Sotheby's great rival, Christie's, rang up $30.6 million over two days. Most of the top-ticket items were purchased by dealers on behalf of unnamed clients...
...KRONOS QUARTET (Nonesuch). The San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet (Violinists David Harrington and John Sherba, Violist Hank Dutt and Cellist Joan Jeanrenaud) looks like a new-wave band and plays like an iconoclast's image-busting dream come to fiddling life. This disk offers the Balinese- influenced String Quartet No. 8 by the idiosyncratic Australian Peter Sculthorpe, the introspective Quartet No. 3 by conservative Finnish Composer Aulis Sallinen, Philip Glass's somber, eight-minute Company, the rarely heard 1942 String Quartet by expatriate American Conlon Nancarrow and, as an encore, an arrangement of Rock Guitarist Jimi Hendrix's Purple Haze...
...recruiting program is "much better for people who want to go into business and not much good for publishing and editorial positions," says recruiting veteran Joan H. M. Hsiao...