Word: queenly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...help wondering: Is her television alter ego, Alexis Carrington, merely engaging once again in deceitful discourse for the sake of her own naughty ends? Not this time. The scene is from Blondes vs Brunettes, an ABC-TV special to be aired next week, which features TV's brunet queen meanie, Collins, and Morgan Fairchild, 34, a blond TV vixen. In one skit they also played sweet post-60 grandmothers who toast each other over tea. Amid the treacle, it is reassuring to remember that the two femmes fatales still have plenty of that good old delicious malicious left...
...from speaking out, then all pretense to democratic rule must absolutely be done away with. We suggest they sink University Hall, creating an underground interrogation center, concealed by a pile of corpses where the building once stood. Dean Epps could really be let loose in the underground as the Queen Bee of a swarm of the little stingers, directing them in defecation flights and pelting recalcitrant students with "yellow rain" until they confess their guilt in "political crimes" against U.S. imperialism...
...executives to exude the right stuff is the business of Denver's Benton Management Resources, which has seen its sales double in the past year, from $100,000 to $200,000, without a word of advertising. Debra Benton, 30, a tall (5 ft. 9 in.) former Colorado beauty queen who drives around town in a red Porsche convertible, founded her firm eight years ago after working with her husband, an executive recruiter. She charges men $100 an hour and women $60 an hour, and $1,500 for eight-hour courses...
DIED. Mabel Mercer, 84, reigning queen of cabaret singers for nearly 70 years, whose unsurpassed ability to turn even the most banal tune into a timeless vignette of love and loss delighted generations of supper-club audiences; of heart disease; in Pittsfield, Mass. Born in England of a white English mother and black American father, Mercer gained renown at Bricktop's Paris café in the 1930s and went to the U.S. in 1939. As her husky contralto began to fail, she honed her unique blend of cadenced speech and vocalizing, delivering such songs...
...fairy queen controls the fate of all the characters, reprieving Iolanthe, helping Strephon rewin his beloved Phyllis, and letting love conquer laws and regulations. And Nan Hughes' Queen stands out with her rich voice and majestic stage presence, ultimately enabling all to live happily ever after...