Word: joni
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have five children) rather casually. "I decided to marry Judy after 15 minutes," he says, "and I asked Paulette [age 16] after 29 hours." The obedient wives, most of whom work as waitresses in Joseph's nearby Red Desert Inn, profess to believe in the Josephian faith. Says Joni, who turned down a $6,000 National Merit scholarship to marry him: "Polygamy provides the sense of fulfillment I never experienced at the First Baptist Church in Billings." Although polygamy is illegal, authorities have trouble prosecuting it. Says Kane County Sheriff Norman Swapp: "Sure it's against...
WOMEN SINGERS have only recently come into their own and Judy Collins, Joan Baez, Grace Slick, and Joni Mitchell led the way in the sixties. Now there's Carole King, Carly Simon, Linda Ronstadt, Bonny Raitt, and Maria Muldaur, the "Rock Women" celebrated in Time's cover story last December. Joni Mitchell is still queen though, and for some men she is to rock what Beatrice was to Dante, with a voice like sweet molasses lifting them into a gossamer fantasy world of free-ee lu-huh-huv. According to Time, "She is the rural neophyte waiting in a subway...
...JONI MITCHELL: COURT AND SPARK (Asylum). Continued exploration of the post-youth dilemma-the need for roots, the fear of commitment-by one of rock's classic stars...
Replacing the receiver, Joni turns and scowls. "Damn," she sighs. "We just put the phone in and it's time to change the number...
Halfway through the tape a phone rings. It is a friend with an invitation to a party. "Yes, we'd love to," says Joni...