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Winthrop House dominated the 1.7 miles race at Soldiers Field, led by Rodney Pearson, Joan Corsiglia and Leslie Voit...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winthrop Races to Victory | 10/15/1981 | See Source »

EVEN BIGGER PROBLEMS, however, are raised by the screen-play, a collaboration of the husband-and-wife team of John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion. Working from Dunne's novel, the screenwriters apparently felt obliged not to graft any artificial eloquence onto characters who would not normally speak that way. Which is fine. The problems arise when Dunne and Didion substitute a peculiar, grunting short-hand that limits the characters and leaves the curious unenlightened. The poor dialogue, combined with the writers' need to explain a complicated and ever-changing plot, result in a dusultory and lifeless narrative...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Less Than Ethereal | 10/14/1981 | See Source »

Although the building's exterior has not been changed, chief architect Joan Goody said the project should be though of as a "total renovation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Old Radcliffe Gym Renovated; Agassiz Slated to Open Nov. 9 | 10/14/1981 | See Source »

Losing one's temper at times, even unjustly, doesn't make a parent a monster. I'm not necessarily an admirer of Joan Crawford, but my sympathy lies with her for not being able to strike back at her accuser from the grave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 12, 1981 | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...describe the reactions of French artists to the Spanish Civil War. Spain was the test of political alignment for artists and intellectuals. It inspired the most famous political image in modern art, Guernica, and evoked some remarkable images from Spaniards other than Picasso, such as Salvador Dali and Joan Miró. Guernica could not be lent to this exhibition, although one gets some hint of the fervors from Miró's design for a poster, Aidez l'Espagne, and from Dali's hallucinated Cannibalisme d'Automne. But most of the work by French artists in support...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Paris 1937-1957: An Elegy | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

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