Word: queens
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Guest's haphazardly delightful Waiting for Guffman she's a fast-food counter girl who gets the chance to co-star in a tacky musical tribute to Blaine, Missouri. Posey graces so many low-budget films that she has called herself "that indie tramp." An apter title would be Queen of the Indies...
...legendary Eva Peron, wife of Argentina's great dictator and unofficial queen of the masses, is one of history's most elusive figures, lending herself more easily to pop-opera deification than standard biography. Tomas Eloy Martinez's absorbing and intricate new novel, Santa Evita, uses so many narrative tricks to both remedy and explore this problem that it almost defies description...
...intensive scrutiny that black politicians face is the tragic character assassination leveled against Lani Guinier, after President Clinton nominated her to be the deputy attorney general for civil rights. Because of controversial articles about alternative voting systems that she wrote in law school, she was dubbed a "quota queen," and her nomination was sabotaged...
...Queen's Counsel and former Hong Kong Bar Association Chair Jacqueline Leong said she feels this autonomy is necessary if peaceful reversion can occur...
CHARGED. BRETT A. SAWYER, 38, a private detective, and LAWRENCE SHAWN SMITH, 36, a photo-lab technician; with selling crime-scene pictures taken after the murder of six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey; in Boulder, Colorado. Sawyer confessed he paid Smith $200 for the photographs, which he sold to the Globe tabloid...