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...would go around to flea markets and junk yards and find electronic equipment," Leigh says...
...reward, and he got a packet with most of them from a construction worker who said he'd found them. Now, 18 years later, the rest have shown up. A New York collectibles dealer, Al Schrimm, says they were in a box he bought at a flea market. He has supplied some to a few publications (including the New York Post, inset) in hopes of selling more. He has had many offers, largely on the basis that Schrimm and others think Marilyn was trying to spoof Jackie Kennedy. But Kenneth Battelle, the hairdresser on the shoot, which was for Vogue...
...LIAISON DANGEREUSE] The commander in chief of British forces in the American Colonies, his affair with the wife of a subordinate prompted the ditty: "Sir William, he, as snug as a flea/ Lay all this time a-snoring/ Nor dreamed of harm, as he lay warm/ In bed with Mrs. Loring...
...when the first rumblings of Gorbachev's thunder disturbed the moldy Soviet silence, the holy fools on the street--the people who always gather at flea markets and around churches--predicted that the new Czar would rule seven years. They assured anyone interested in listening that Gorbachev was "foretold in the Bible," that he was an apocalyptic figure: he had a mark on his forehead. Everyone had searched for signs in previous leaders as well, but Lenin's speech defect, Stalin's mustache, Brezhnev's eyebrows and Khrushchev's vast baldness were utterly human manifestations. The unusual birthmark...
...giant foam pit in the corner of my room for frolicking. I also decided that a real waterfall with running water would take too much time to construct. And sadly, I have yet to find an antique Victorian mini-bar--with lots of compartments, mirrors and lighting--at the flea market. So much for those ideas...