Word: bimbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Club members say rumors of what students in and out of the clubs term "bimbo" parties--attended by large numbers of women from Harvard and neighboring schools--are unfounded...
...lucrative PTL ministry by admitting an irregular sexual escapade into which Bakker and fellow Preacher John Fletcher allegedly conscripted her in 1980. Now she is on the cover of the November Playboy, which paid about three- quarters of a million dollars for an interview ("I'm not a bimbo," she said) and topless photo layout. Her face has become familiar on such shows as Larry King Live and Good Morning, America. Her lawyer, Dominic Barbara, speaks of possible mini-series and books to come -- "her only way of collecting compensation and fighting back...
...bimbo....I am a human being. I was done in. I was hurt," she declared in the interview, which includes topless photos of the 28-year-old former church secretary whose encounter with Bakker led to the PTL evangelist's downfall...
Peggy Sue feels this way as well: the buoyancy of her past is out of reach. Charlie -- "Crazy Charlie," as he is called on the TV spots in which he manically promotes his appliance store -- has opted for a young bimbo, and Peggy Sue's carpet has worn thin with trudgery. At the reunion, the anguished smile she wears clashes with her old prom dress. "If I knew then what I know now," she muses, "I'd do a lot of things differently." Will she, though, when she gets the dream of a chance? Crowned the reunion queen, she grows...
Bigotry! Secrecy! Hedonism! Selfishness! Such an indictment prompts visions of constant, scandalous misbehavior on the part of the Clubbies. Yet Grossman's summary of their beastliness includes only the charge that the Clubs hold "elaborate parties;" fly "punchees" to Atlantic City; serve "over priced dinners;" organize dances characterized as "bimbo" parties; "have reportedly used prostitutes" at some events; and are rumored to conduct "hazing ceremonies which are disgusting at best and hazardous at worst...