Word: myrna
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the affair. "It's thrilling to see that drug addiction has become so chic," said Comic Alan King. Then a celebrity-sprinkled crowd of 1,500, some in costumes of the '40s, applauded a constellation of stars who were the '40s: Ruby Keeler, Myrna Lay, Jane Withers, Patsy Kelly, Joan Bennett, Claudette Colbert, Arlene Francis, Lena Home. "Didn't they all look great?" asked ex-Hoofer Dan Dailey. "Mind you, there was a lot of mileage up there...
Last night's other speakers were Florynce Kennedy, black feminist and lawyer from New York, co-author of the book Abortion Rap; Myrna Hill from the Black and Third World Caucus; and Margaret Benston, a long-time feminist and professor at Simon Frazier University in Vancouver...
...Myrna and I were married-without the blessing, financial or otherwise, of my father-and the long struggle began to put me through the Academy of Advanced Accounting. Most of the burden was borne by Myrna, who spent twelve hours a day teaching karate at the downtown Jack LaLanne's. Our only recreation was listening to Rod McKuen on Sunday, and except for a few old posters of Mao and Marcuse, a signed photo of Kate Millett and a ritual five-minute recitation at midnight from the Little Red Book, she had given up radical politics altogether. I suspect...
...only thing to do, Sammy," she said. Love has its limits, and with that comment Myrna had just passed them. She obviously had to go. But how? One day I snagged the perfect solution-a rusty nail in a kitchen cupboard. Late that night, when Myrna was sleeping off the extra-heavy dose of fortified milk I had prepared for her, I scratched her, ever so gently, on the right instep-I did not want to hurt her. Within the week the toxin took hold...
...Myrna. With a rusty nail...