Word: madams
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the single most stimulating parliamentary candidate is Actress Diane Hart, 43, an Independent, now under heavy attack for playing a brothel madam in the new film Two Women -and for wearing a see-through nightie in the role. Undoubtedly the most derivative candidate is one Edward James Robert Lambert Heath, who used to be plain old James Robert Lambert, a 28-year-old schoolteacher. He changed his name by deed poll (a simple court procedure costing $6) to aggravate Conservative Party Leader Edward ("Ted") Heath. Since both Edward Heaths are running in suburban London's Bexley constituency...
...from Brasilia to a distance of 25 miles. Trucks rumble along the 1,350-mile Belem-Brasilia highway, spawning hundreds of roadside settlements, some of them with a distinct frontier flavor. At one hamlet, appropriately called Piza no Freio (Hit the Brake), the only permanent residents are a madam and her four girls...
...basement garage of his Chicago office building, one black journalist is often asked to park cars, even though he is wearing a business suit. When he putters around the yard of his house in suburban Scarsdale, a New York dentist is invariably asked by delivery men for the "madam." She's not at home? How about "the man of the house"? The "gardener" says, "Wait a minute," goes through the back door and emerges at the front, getting a little of his own back at the deliveryman's discomfiture. A black woman lawyer in a federal agency...