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...doesn't walk onstage. She insinuates herself. Rotary-drive hips, and fingers that were probably snapping out rhythms in the cradle. Overstuffed bosom beneath a Pucci dress, $450 shoulder-length brown wig, and eyelashes long enough to rake a lawn with. She coolly surveys the scene and lets fly with a sassafras falsetto: "Whoooo-eeeee! Watch out, honey! Don't you touch me! Don't you ever touch me!" Or: "When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not." Or her trademark: "What you see is what...
...Wash, Rake and Sweep...
Radcliffe Choral Society, 1969-71. Treasurer, 1970-71; Radcliffe Chorus 1968-9; Comstock Hall President, 1970; North House Committee, 1970; Lowell House Opera-"The Rake's Progress", 1971; Lowell House Committee-Treasurer...
...seventh fairway of the Glen Lakes Country Club. In between was a fence, and little Lee was soon turning a tidy profit on that happy coincidence ?collecting balls that sailed over the fence and selling them back to club members. Expanding his business, he welded two rake handles together, fashioned a chicken-wire scoop on one end, and went fishing for more strays in the water hazards. "I cleared maybe $10 a day," he recalls. When he was six, he found a discarded wooden-shafted No. 5 iron, sawed it down to size and began hitting horse apples. Bored...
...sale? Arguably, there is. Assuming that the appetites of collectors will not diminish in the near future, governments might well impose a conservation tax on every work of art that is sold at auction for more than, say, $100,000. The figure need not be high; 5% would rake off millions of dollars annually into a pool that could be administered by some suitable international body for conservation and restoration needs-in urban space, architecture, sculpture, painting -anywhere in the world...