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...JOAN KENNEDY STORY...
...Joan Kennedy was once the nation's leading candidate for Wronged Woman of the Year. Long-suffering, she stood by her husband during the dark hours of Chappaquiddick. Although her marriage was deteriorating, she loyally stumped for Teddy during the 1980 primaries. It was not easy to stop being a Kennedy: the family exerted a powerful gravitational force...
Plenty, written by David Hare and directed by Fred Schepisi, traces the degeneration of Susan Traherne (Streep) from her work with the French Resistance in 1943 to her desertion of her husband almost 20 years later. Susan--part Joan of Archetype, part loony from Loonyville--is a bitter romantic who never got over her teenage crush on reckless idealism. During the war there was excitement to spare in her view of the British as parachuting | angels of mercy. Her one great moment of idealistic passion--in a tatty French hotel room with an exhausted soldier-hero--is the memory that...
...Joan Baez, who agrees that this all represents "some kind of phenomenon," also suggests, "Rock 'n' rollers are answering a need of young people to make something out of ashes and silence. They have no leadership, no hero. They've been left nothing. But it's not just the kids. People in my generation or a little younger are longing for something they tasted and that went away." Comments Van Zandt: "The trend of activism is a natural thing after ten to 15 years of being in a coma...
...have the start-and-stop fidgets, many exercisers have the fitness flitters, endlessly switching from one activity to another. "If people begin to exercise because it's a fad or start up with something that is not convenient, they just won't stick with it," notes Dr. Joan Ullyot, a San Francisco specialist in sports medicine...