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...happy pro-though things were rough at the start, what with all those changes. "In the beginning there was a lot of blood on the project" is how she tells it. Now it's all greasepaint. "Since I was 14 I've worn enough makeup to sink the Mayflower," she says. "Here I wear six wigs, 17 different costumes. The whole thing is sexy fun. I make a better whore than a secretary anyway. And Burt, he's so wonderful and I love him so good." One day Dolly and Burt were shootin' a number called...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Whorehouse goes Hollywood | 12/28/1981 | See Source »

...hand for not-quite-clean plates; right for dirty, so the left can pick up the stainless stell. A quick move to get glasses, cups, and deep-dished bowls to their separate dishwasher to get them cleaner; dump the detergent, slam the doors, turn the knobs; run to the sink and scrub the pot Gregory just left...

Author: By Siddhartha Mazumdar, | Title: Working Class Zero | 10/22/1981 | See Source »

...freshmen in the top three positions, the netwomen clinched the match early by sweeping the six singles contests. Yardling Tracy Kunichika needed only 30 minutes to sink her opponent, 6-0, 6-1; and classmates Elizabeth Evans and Debbie Kaufman treated their rivals in similar fashion at numbers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Netwomen Topple Tufts | 10/14/1981 | See Source »

...very principles of moderation that have put us in our current fix seem hardly enough. The slow steady path of a barge is less attractive that the swooping of a sailboat; it is worth noting that both vessels eventually reach their destinations, and that barges when they sink go down much more irrevocably...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Both Sides Now | 9/23/1981 | See Source »

...inconvenient to use in a shower or bath. Said a top soap executive: "We don't think it will go much further. Its use is too limited." Armour-Dial, though, is advertising its bar-shaped squeeze bottle of liquid soap as equally suitable for both shower and sink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Soft Sell | 9/14/1981 | See Source »

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