Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roberts manages the sort of homely but vulnerable manner that might conceivably make a brash young knight eager to wed and protect her, then live to regret the day. Finney, the best he's been since Tom Jones, projects all the lying charm of that role, but with more blushes...
The game took a temporary turn backwards immediately after that when Geiger nailed Greg Jones with a 29-yard strike that turned into a 69-yard pass-and-run play and a 14-14 tie. Undaunted, Harvard's offense revisited the B.U. endzone 14 seconds later thanks to an 80...
To Manhattanite Kathryn Bridgman, 25, "Ford exuded the personality of an overcooked noodle." But Bostonian Sam Jones, 28, felt the President "sounded much better than usual." Nettie Goldstein, 63, of Skokie, Ill., dozed through some questions, but what she saw led her to conclude that "they both came off very...
Here is the flat art of realism matched to the flatness of small-town American life, a genre as old as Winesburg, Ohio and Main Street. What then makes Jones' lives under glass more than mementos in a Texas museum? For one thing, sheer theatricality. Jones is a master...
Whether Jones, now revising his fourth play, A Place on the Magdalena Flats, has the depth to extend an attitude of compassion into a vision of tragedy remains to be seen. For now, he can write a superior version of the sort of modern folklore that makes Bobbie Gentry ballads...