Word: madam
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...Madam President...
...both women, Harvard's Institute of Politics gave recognition of sorts last weekend by including them in a special seminar on Mayoral Leadership and Transition. As two of the nation's three big-city women mayors, (the third is in San Antonio), Hance and Hayes proved that as "Madam Mayors" they're not just token females...
...evening Theodore Bernstein, consulting editor of the New York Times and for years its linguistic policeman, was trying to think of the term for a sentence or word that reads the same both backward and forward, as in "Madam, I'm Adam." It came to him the next morning (palindrome), and with it the inspiration for this book-a reverse dictionary that alphabetically lists an array of meanings and then retrieves the word that has momentarily disappeared into the outer fog banks of the brain...
...first collection, introduced at a Paris ready-to-wear show last week, features-what else?-evening wear specially designed for dancing. With it all, redheaded Regine finds time to rehearse for a new film, The Seven Per Cent Solution, with Laurence Olivier and Vanessa Redgrave. Her part: the madam in an exclusive bordello...
...hilarious as Love and Death. Allen offers a menagerie of mythical beasts: the Great Roe has "the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion." "The Whore of Mensa" wittily plays with the idea of a brothel for intellectual entertainment. The madam has a master's degree in comparative literature; for a price, a curvaceous Vassar student can be had for an hour's chat about Herman Melville; "symbolism is extra...