Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble is, said Conte, that the claims from various beekeepers were paid without first checking to see if the dead bees expired from "pesticides, old age, arthritis or too much high living." He singled out one apiary in Mayhew, Miss., that he labeled "the queen bee of all recipients in 1972, waxing the taxpayers for $457,000." A spokesman for the apiary admitted that it is hard to tell just how bees die, adding, "The least little thing kills them." But Congressmen have tender hearts. Despite Conte's complaints, the program has been extended another four years...
...firm, the two dozen spectators murmur approval: if the judge's finger sinks deep into the sheep's chest, a groan goes up. After half an hour of prodding and measuring, groaning and murmuring and bleating, the judge straightens up and signals for the Suffolk Sheep Queen to come out and distribute ribbons to the winners. She strolls out in a red gingham dress, stepping carefully around the manure...
Then there are damages. Some of the Hyatt's rooms have been repainted more times than the Queen Mary. During a recent stay, Led Zeppelin surpassed its 1972 record of $1,700 by racking up $2,500 in damages-destroying paintings, soiling walls, submerging four stereos in bathtubs, and reportedly holding motorcycle races in a corridor. But, like Joe Cocker, who ruined a carpet last spring by stomping his birthday cake into the fabric, the musicians smoothed things over by paying the tab immediately. "Most of these groups just don't worry about damages," sighs Hyatt Manager...
Born in Suffern, N.Y., the daughter of a nomadic industrial lighting salesman, Valerie and her family settled in Jersey City, N.J., when she was 12. A victim of the movie The Red Shoes, she decided to become a ballerina. "I was heavy into recitals, a real little dancing queen," she recalls. "I tapped Tea for Two in silver lamé, and I used to do a sexy In a Persian Market in a mock leopard costume with a bare midriff...
...White Queen of the Blues. When she threw back her head to sing she became a lioness. From the moment she stomped, wailed, moaned, sweated her way through Love Is Like a Ball and Chain at the Monterey pop festival in June 1967 until her death three years later from an overdose of heroin, Janis Joplin was the high priestess of rock, the only female star to become a sex symbol on the order of Mick Jagger or Jim Morrison...