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...this kind of genteel compassion and it's real," says one admirer. "It's sad that there aren't more like her." Indeed, there are very few like Fenwick. Like Lacy Davenport, the Doonesbury character modelad after her, she roams around the House floor clutching her big red handbag and charging to the microphone when the occasion calls for it. Long interested in social problems, she fought for civil rights years before it became fashionable. She warned of the bad housing conditions in Newark before riots there broke out. As vice chairman of the New Jersey advisory committee...
...first glance it looks like an ordinary, woman's handbag, just waiting to be lifted. But as thousands of pokers, prodders and pullers have discovered, it is not. It is made of bronze and, for the past three years, has been firmly bolted to its base, a bus-stop bench...
...manufacturer known for leotards and tights, for whom Watanabe is shooting a couple of catalogues. And here comes another gofer of some kind, a plain-faced, skinny young woman in big tortoise-shell glasses, a grungy raincoat and sneakers. She plops down at the makeup table, opens a big handbag that turns out to be a makeup case and, as the onlooker tells himself that he is an idiot, briskly begins to turn herself into Clotilde...
...Nancy would not say what she will wear for the ball, though rumor has it that it will be a white gown by Galanos, one of her favorite designers (price for the ordinary buyer: up to $8,000). She will wear white shoes and carry a rhinestone-decked white handbag by Manhattan's Judith Lieber, who makes the priciest totes in America...
...widowed or emotionally neglected by their husbands, and they felt no sense of dishonesty; the thefts were frequently a thrilling escape from monotony and depression, and occasionally were sexually arousing. According to Lee-Potter, one woman told her, "I got an orgasm every time I slipped something into my handbag...