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Director: Yeah, we're decided all right. I'll take care of everything. Tell the Big Man not to worry, sans detail s'il vous plait. (Turning to the Bag Lady) Excuse me miss, where do you get your political opinions...
...station ordered her to cut her shoulder-length hair. Mary Alice Williams was urged in 1979 by NBC's New York station to change her eye color with tinted contact lenses. Dorothy Reed was forbidden in 1980 by ABC's San Francisco station to plait her hair in corn rows. The three women, and many of their counterparts, cheered last week when Christine Craft, 38, won a $500,000 damage verdict against the former owners of a Kansas City station, KMBC, that dropped her as an anchor in 1981. Craft charged that Station Manager R. Kent Replogle told...
...titles of Perelman's "bits of embroidery," as he called his pieces, set new boundaries for comic absurdity: Somewhere a Roscoe; Beat Me, Post-Impressionist Daddy; Amo, Amas, Amat, Amamus, Amatis, Enough; Insert Flap "A" and Throw Away; No Starch in the Dhoti, S'll Vous Plait; Methinks He Doth Protein Too Much. His death last week in New York at 75 closed the page on a generation of American humorists that included Frank Sullivan, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker and H. Allen Smith. Yet as Humorist Russell Baker observes, Perelman's work was not typically American...
While many braided men-as well as women-cajole friends or family into helping them twine their locks, others visit an expanding coterie of cornrowing specialists. Manhattan Corn-Rower Femi Sarah Heggie has plaited the likes of Aretha Franklin, Melvin Van Peebles, Nina Simone and Dick Williams. Brooklyn Plaiter Christine Harper, on the other hand, concentrates on braiding businessmen in their 20s and 30s. "Rugged he-men types are my best customers," she says. The mahatma of Washington corn-rowers is Nat Mathis, better known to friends and customers as Nat the Bush Doctor. Nat began his career with Afros...
...indignation. Actress Micheline Presle was mildly amused: "Eh bien, he has a very pretty little rear end. It's almost dishonest competition." Similarly sympathetic was Actress Catherine Deneuve, who allowed that she was "weary of naked women. Let's have some nude men, s'il vous plait." Among those outraged by the spectacle was Henri Larivière, a professional poster plasterer. In a rearguard action, as it were, he partially covered some of the posters with white rectangular patches that the French television network uses as a warning against material that is "not for minors...