Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another point, a Bal Harbor, Fla. police officer who fell for Perdue's conservative looks, told him. "I can't wait until the shirt hits the fan down there [in Miami Beach] so I can kill some of those hippies." The patrolman proceeded to display some of his department's newly-acquired rifles to Perdue who said he was dumbfounded...
...days are noticeably cooler than only a few weeks ago, and, for many, sleep finally comes easily at night. Autumn has arrived--a time for inflating the presidential pigskin. The season of year has proved enough to raise the spirits of the nation's number one football fan. Mr. Nixon, we are told, is on the rebound...
...Lori Lightning, and their accoutrements are kookier than their names: glitter makeup, an electric Afro pierced by a long-stemmed rose, extremely low-cut dungarees with two suspenders to cover the nipples. The gay and transvestite crowds attracted by performers like Alice Cooper and David Bowie have included one fan dressed as a ladybug and another as the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz. Indeed, so bizarre is the show on the sidewalk that it produces another kind of damage problem: distracted motorists driving past the hotel have an average of six collisions a month...
...Ivory Snow commercial. He got the job. The first week the tape was telecast the manufacturer received 400 letters - for Mason. After three years of amiably declaiming the virtues of Underwood Chicken Spread, Post Raisin Bran and other products in his preternaturally deep, adenoidal voice, Mason has a fan club and a five-figure savings account, and this year won a Clio award at the American TV and Radio Commercials Festival for the best male performance in a television commercial. Last month New York's WNBC-TV offered him a spot as a children's news correspondent...
...short, the Loeb's production of Lady Windermere's Fan is diverting, entertaining, and certainly worth seeing. It is funny, yes, but biting at its best. And the capping irony of it all: only four years after this play was first produced, Wilde himself fell into disrepute--just as his character, Mrs. Erlynne--by his failure to conduct himself by the too proper rules of Victorian propriety...