Word: sayers
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...recent local contest and a seldom-seen elections chief, Arthur Anderson, who has been seriously ill since losing his re-election bid in the August primary race. But a pleasant autumnal drop in temperature after a torrid summer has helped early Palm Beach voters like McCain backer Arelia Sayer, 54, forget the troubles. "We've got a beautiful day," Sayer said in line in Boynton Beach. "You've got to get 'er done...
Indeed, nostalgia can be an additional motivating factor, especially for elderly people who have used clotheslines throughout their lives. Mary Lou Sayer, who is over 85, dried her clothes outside when she was young and hoped to do so again when she moved to a Concord, N.H., retirement village three years ago. She has proposed a change to the community's clothesline ban twice. Her second pitch was voted down unanimously in late October. Her best chance now rests with a bill that state representative Suzanne Harvey plans to introduce in 2008 that would say hanging laundry outside cannot...
...from '70s melodies and disco brought up to date with full orchestration, kids' choirs and gymnastic vocals. On Grace Kelly he nods to his Freddie Mercury singing style: "So I try a little Freddie/ I've gone identity mad." He also tries a little George (Michael), Elton (John), Leo (Sayer) and Robbie (Williams) too, with a good measure of Scissor Sisters and Bee Gees but without the name checks. It's catchy. Damn...
...Sayer's jazz drummer father, Gerry, and Betty, her frazzled mother, are bottle buddies who happen to have three small children. When her parents split, Sayer's freewheeling childhood descends into a grim saga: she moves from suburb to suburb, school to school, always at the mercy of Betty's genius for sabotaging her own security and picking up the wrong bloke at the pub. Amid this culture of poverty, mental illness, domestic violence, alcoholism and fear, Sayer blossoms. She finds ways to escape the misery, if only in bursts, through poetry, martial arts and music. Friends drop...
Within this milieu of women's refuges, fortnightly pensions, brutality and exasperation, Sayer manages not only to survive but to grow. The other side of drifting is freedom and a spirit of adventure. She attends a "free school" in Melbourne where the subjects include creative writing, Indian studies and weaving. The people she meets there draw her out of herself and into the world with speed and direction. Velocity is intoxicating - but don't even think of matching the drinking in it. And heed the advice of a dying man, who advises Sayer to "never mix morphine with metho...