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...Everything), but continued to make scores of "final" appearances. Asked about her style, Gypsy quoted her teacher Tessie the Tassel Twirler. "In burlesque," Tessie once told her, "you've got to leave 'em hungry for more. You don't just dump the whole roast on the platter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 11, 1970 | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

Merilee passed through a momentary impulse to cover the steak platter and fan away the odor of flesh, which would be offensive to the nostrils of the Master...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/1/1970 | See Source »

Baby rats had been taken from the biology labs during the afternoon. Individuals in the group planned to present the tiny pink squirming rodents to Pusey on a silver platter garnished with lettuce as a gift from "the tenants of Harvard-owned apartments and the oppressed people of the third world...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Rates on Dunster Dinner Menu; Pusey Must Settle for Roast Beef | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

...give-you-coffee approach. Later that afternoon, when I went to Dean Ford's office to borrow a copy of the 1954 committee report, I found that the tactic was fairly ubiquitous. In the receptionist's office was a large platter of brownies and raisin and Toll House cookies. I had been there only 15 minutes when I succumbed...

Author: By Richard E. Hyland, | Title: Can We Know the Dancer from the Dance? | 10/22/1969 | See Source »

...compatibility with existing hi-fi systems-for it requires only an "encoder" at the recording studio and a "decoder" in the home of the listener (in addition to the extra amplifiers and speakers). Yet whether the Scheiber system or something like it will really end by saving old-fashioned platter records from the tape revolution depends on the public. No one knows how record collectors will face up to the trouble and cost of replacing their favorite old recordings with new ones-either on tape or disk-in quadrisonic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recordings: Ahd Now, Quadrisonic | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

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