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...sorority sister seemed a bit closer to the catwalk. Hardee has competed in beauty pageants in the past, and she even aspired to be Miss Junior Alabama. She’s never actually modelled, but she’s closer than most. Except, of course, for Laura Duncan. A student at the Graduate School of Design, Duncan brought along a leather binder full of photos from past modeling jobs, for which she has earned up to $3,500. Like the freshman and sophomore modeling neophytes, she is tall and thin. But unlike the younger girls, Duncan is a tad slicker?...
...time. Jealousy-riddled Helen and flighty Julia are lovers - but for how long? Helen's ex, Kay, after being fully incorporated into the war effort as an ambulance driver, finds herself marginalized for her sexual preferences. Vivien, who runs a lonely-hearts agency with Helen, worries about her brother, Duncan, recently released from prison. The book opens in 1947, jumps to 1944 and then back again to 1941, because Waters began a story set in postwar London, but found herself "completely sucked into" her research on the war. "I thought that actually what's interesting here...
Maybe not yet, Seth. Although some snowboarders--and their agents--insist they've gone mainstream, this is still a sport in which Blink 182 blares over the loudspeakers while the boarders McTwist and where a chain-smoking, black-bandanna-wearing public-address announcer--American Dave Duncan--pumps the crowd when there's a "smokin' run." His black T shirt at the women's half-pipe read, SKATE AND DESTROY. Not exactly Olympian, but your kids are catching on: the National Sporting Goods Association estimates there are more recreational snowboarders (6.6 million) than skiers (5.9 million) in the U.S. Look...
...which appears to be slowing. But oil and gas reserves are building; their prices will stablize soon. Housing activity will continue to slow-but from a pace that everyone knew was unsustainable. The national median home price rose a blistering 13% last year. The next three years, predicts Doug Duncan, chief economist at the Mortgage Banker?s Association, price gains will equal their long-run average of 5% to 6% each year...
Caloza said he and his roommate didn’t think much about the encounter until they heard of store owner Duncan W. Purdy’s recent arrest, following an undercover investigation by Cambridge and Somerville police, who allege that Purdy ran and profited from a “house of prostitution...