Word: parking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Clarice Conley was nine years old, her mother and grandmother began the initiation. Dressed in her finest, shoes shiny, gloves pristine, she was allowed to follow them through the heavy oak doors of the Highland Park Ebell Club in the hills of northeastern Los Angeles. In the cavernous main hall, surrounded by distinguished ladies with brows aloft, she listened to dramatic readings, or speeches on art or tropical Brazil. The children even had a dining room all their...
...theatrical show is being planned. In the meantime, performers move in and out of the Cirque's cast as the show travels. The youngest so far is seven-year-old Annie Wagner-Bouthillier, one of 14 -- count them -- 14 riders in a bicycle balancing stunt. In Manhattan's Battery Park City, it should not be hard to recognize her. She'll be the one with the big smile...
...father of a beer belch that could knock down every drop of loose water in the locker-room shower was, of course, Babe Ruth. "When the Babe left the train for the ball park," relates Pete Rose, as if Rose were not only alive then but could still smell the yeast, "he would remind the porter to have the bathtub full of beer by the time he returned." Rose got the story straight from Waite Hoyt, the late pitcher and alcoholic, who along with Third Baseman Joe Dugan was a pallbearer at Ruth's funeral in August...
...That phrase wasn't even part of my daughter's vocabulary." It had, however, become part of the public's vocabulary earlier this year during the "preppie murder" trial of Robert Chambers, who claimed to have killed Jennifer Levin accidentally during an unbridled sexual episode in Manhattan's Central Park. Last week Levin's father Steven held a press conference to protest such defense tactics. "It's become open season on women," he said. Porto Prosecutor Littman agrees: "Rough sex is the defense du jour...
...Dorfman, David Ellis, Kathryn Jackson Fallon, Mary McC. Fernandez, Cassie T. Furgurson, John E. Gallagher, Lois Gilman, Edward M. Gomez, Christine Gorman, Tam Martinides Gray, Rodman Griffin, Janice M. Horowitz, Jeanette Isaac, Carol A. Johmann, Sinting Lai, Daniel S. Levy, JoAnn Lum, Emily Mitchell, Lawrence Mondi, Christine Morgan, Jeannie Park, Michael Quinn, Theodore P. Roth, Megan Rutherford, Andrea Sachs, David Seideman, David E. Thigpen, Leslie Whitaker, Linda Williams, Linda Young...