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...seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown. (Florida...
...Cambridge City Council labored through its first meeting of its fall term Monday, tackling a range of issues from the West Nile virus to citywide rezoning to town-gown relations...
...desk, accompanied by his son. A nurse explained to the son how to collect a stool sample. And then a stocky woman in white called my name and led me down the hall to an examining room and told me to strip to my shorts and don a small gown. She was friendly and matter of fact in the manner of small-town Lutherans, and I could imagine striking up a conversation about the weather and gardens and how fast summer goes by. When it comes my time to go, I imagine doing it in the company of Midwestern Lutheran...
...padded away, and I sat for a few minutes in my gown, feeling mortal, the way you do if you're 57 and scantily clad, sitting in bright light. I could imagine that a pea-size tumor in my innards had sprouted and sent evil tendrils shooting through the lymph nodes, and now dense jungle growths had a grip on my vitals and in a few months people would sit in an Episcopal church and softly weep for me and then have a nice lunch. I was almost to the scattering of the ashes when the doctor walked...
...Clark Gable and Cary Grant; in Los Angeles. She won an Oscar for The Farmer's Daughter (1947) as a Swedish-American farm girl who becomes a Congresswoman. In 1953 she was host and star of TV's The Loretta Young Show, creating a trademark entrance in a glam gown at the start of each show. She won three Emmys for the dramatic series. Young, thrice married, all but retired from acting in 1963, devoting her energy to a cosmetics line and to Catholic charities, for which she received some derision. Marlene Dietrich said, "Every time she 'sins,' she builds...