Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. CHARLES PIERCE, 72, flamboyant impersonator of Hollywood grandes dames; of cancer; in North Hollywood, Calif. Known for his campy--and catty--impressions of Bette Davis, Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson and Mae West, Pierce played clubs throughout Europe and the U.S. for four decades...
...than a dozen pipe bombs. The news caused a wave of anxiety at an Olympic media summit in progress in Atlanta at the time. Federal and state officials, however, rushed to deny any link to the Games, blaming the reports on erroneous leaks. Georgia Bureau of Investigations spokesman John Bankhead clarified the militia's main enemy: "They want to protect themselves from what they see as government attacks." Officials are hoping Atlanta will not see other scares in the weeks ahead. But schedules are fraught with worrisome coincidences: preliminary proceedings in the Oklahoma bombing trial begin soon...
...singer, Busch is a dynamite actress. To the task he brings a heroic vibrato and a trouper's frozen wide-screen smile. Imagine Tallulah Bankhead working the low notes and Shirley Temple the high ones on the Johnny Mercer-Harold Arlen Ac-cent-tchu-ate the Positive, and you have an idea of the suave campery at which Busch excels...
...whenever I was onstage with ((Tallulah Bankhead)) and the moment approached when I was supposed to kiss her, I couldn't bear it. For some reason, she had a cool mouth and her tongue was especially cold ... I asked a stagehand to buy me a bottle of mouthwash, and after each time I had to kiss her I went offstage and took a swig...
...mostly more liberal than the aging leader, but the dynamics of China's upper echelons of government are still nebulous to observers from the West. Acting alone, China could throw the whole world into ruin. A coordination with North Korea's forces would not achieve much more than a bankhead on the southeast coast of Asia. In any case, North Korea is expendable except as one of three strictly Communist or Socialist nations on the continent...