Janis Joplin: A Cry Cutting Through Time; She Lived Fast and She Died Hard. After All These Years, Her Blues Still Give Us A Little Piece Of Her Heart. From: The Washington Post | Date: May 5, 1998| Author: Paul Hendrickson | Copyright 1998 The Washington Post. This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post.Copyright information

Can you picture James Dean, can you imagine Janis Joplin, grown old and wheezy and boring, trying to deliver clever patter on late-night talk shows? Horrid image. No, far better to have them in our minds now as smashed idols, as icons of their separate fiery moments.

You think of Janis Joplin, whose music is so redolent of the '60s, and what comes to mind? A woman who could bellow and cry and stamp and then turn around and go achingly tender. Someone who could sing up every song a...

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