Word: joni
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years later he was playing Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell tunes at a campus coffeehouse near the University of Maryland. A lot of Byrne's high school classmates were going into the military, but, Celia says, "David wanted to go to art school. Teachers and guidance counselors tried to talk him out of it. My family was supportive though. They just wanted us to be happy...
...first wave of Baby Boomers, enabling TIME staffers to pull together the disparate elements of the Baby Boom experience, from Hula- Hoops to the Viet Nam War, from jogging to two-income families. Says Zintl: "To me, the central issue was how these 'aging children,' as Songwriter Joni Mitchell once called us, would at last face the responsibilities of being adults." The father of two teenage girls, he adds, "I sometimes suspect that we may wind up as millions of ill-tempered senior citizens, complaining about our children and snarling, 'Don't trust anyone under 70.' " Associate Editor Evan Thomas...
...sultry voice and jazzy arrangements have led some to compare her with vocalists of a bygone era, but Sade, 26, cites instead such contemporary influences as Ray Charles, Smokey Robinson and Joni Mitchell. Whatever her sources, the Nigerian-born, English-bred singer has cut a unique groove for herself. Sade (pronounced Shar-day) saw her 1984 debut album, Diamond Life, go platinum while her second, Promise, is shooting up the charts, and her current eight-city U.S. tour is sold out. She has also been named one of the world's ten most elegant women by Elle magazine. Pretty good...
...longer seen as shuttles to paradise. They had become villains responsible for turning America into a dystopia. Autos were described as gas guzzlers, road eaters, monsters that plunder the countryside. They had brought about a nation scarred with billboards, motels and drive-in restaurants, banks and even churches. When Joni Mitchell sang, "They paved paradise and put up a parking lot," millions of listeners joined in the chorus...
DIRECTOR WRITER John Sayles seems to like his movies heavy on soundtrack, light on plot. In his recent Lianna, a young mother of two decides for no apparent reason to take up homosexuality while a Joni Mitchellesque voice sings about love and other relevant topics in the background. Lianna does a lot of mournful staring out of windows, the crooning puts us--sort of--in the mood, and nothing much else happens...