Hints and tips:
...When a predatory producer arrives to check them out, we see the terrible moment that rips childhood from Joan and tears the heart out of the family....
...music press (those were the days when such things still mattered), sellout shows at the Royal Albert Hall, a video for his song “Spitting in the Wind” in which Gough sat on the edge of a bath containing Joan...
...Joan Baez recorded the first of several versions on her 1965 album Farewell, Angelina, acoustic and electric guitar dovetailing to form a sweet backdrop for her stunning voice....
...Joan C Williams and Hillary Clinton have a lot in common, though Williams is much the better speaker. “I’m a deference-challenged woman,” she says, in brisk authoritative tones. “So is Hillary....
...The song appears in Joan Littlewood and the Theatre Workshop’s 1963 establishment-rattling play (and, later, film), Oh! What a Lovely War, which marked the decade’s shift towards an antiwar orthodoxy....
...Under Terry Kinney’s generally brisk direction, these anecdotes become plays-within-the-play that the ensemble perform with impressive dexterity....
...And of course one of my favourite musicians, Joan Baez. If you could pack only one thing, what would it be? A bicycle. Or the cat, El Gato....
...Shakespeare’s Henry VI Part I, which forms the bulk of the first part of this trilogy, is openly propagandistic, exulting in Henry’s triumph over the French led by a Joan of Arc who is explicitly a witch...
...There is also a glimpse en passant of one great who hated television: Peggy Ashcroft is seen enjoying a radio rehearsal, brushing aside a producer’s timid suggestion with a brisk “later on!”...
...In which case, I can’t think where I’d rather stay than the Andaz, a brisk 15-minute walk from the main museums....
...Joan Baez How Sweet The Sound Proper The DVD documents Baez’s twin-track career as musician and activist; the companion CD’s brisk run-through of rare live performances tells the same story....
...Joan Clothier, pictured above, was giving her vote to the Conservative candidate. “I’m very impressed with what Boris Johnson says,” she said....
...The Lefroy affair, and what doomed it, is dealt with in three brisk pages with the epitaph “it very likely came down to the lack of money on both sides”....
...In the worst case, Maeve Larkin’s Joan of Arc is allowed only a brief, symbolic demonstration of her struggle before being condemned to death....
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