Word: lacey
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Princess, Lacey...
When Fenwick first came to Congress in 1975, she took Washingtonians by surprise. How could they know that the elegant, gracious Mrs. Fenwick was also an outspoken, steel-strapped pipe-smoker? As Bella Abzug told her, "Everyone expected you to be an uptight dowager." Perhaps Lacey Davenport, her caricature in the Doonesbury comic strip, explains best what Capitol Hill denizens really found. Charming and upbeat, she was unafraid to tangle with the personalities that might have had the power to end her career...
...doubt about it, Dick Davenport is plenty steamed. Husband of Congresswoman Lacey Davenport in Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip, he discovered last week that U.S. Secretary of the Interior James Watt plans to open Davenport's beloved Matagorda Island Wildlife Refuge in Texas to developers. "Watt can't do that!" fumes the courtly Davenport, his straw boater slightly askew. "It's outrageous and unconscionable!" So furious is he that, "as secretary of the Maryland Audubon Society, I'm seriously thinking of demanding Watt's resignation in our next newsletter...
...equally gripping scene at the end of Raiders of the Lost Ark shows Toht, the German villain (Ronald Lacey), dissolving into a puddle. How did Makeup Man Chris Walas do it? He began by taking a life mold of the actor's face. From that he made a plaster skull, which he covered with layers of chilled gelatin. When it came time for Toht to melt away, a heat gun-a super hair dryer-was turned on and the gelatin began to drip. So ended that particular Nazi menace...
Poor taste was the occasional price of all this live television. Early on the day of the wedding, Tom Brokaw noted that Diana "appears to have very large feet." Guest Commentator and Biographer Robert Lacey piped in that Charles "has very large ears." Brokaw at one point cracked that the Welsh Guards are "a very early regal version of the Coneheads"-the daffy extraterrestrial family on NBC's old Saturday Night Live show...