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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some of P-town's bars have spectacular night shows featuring comedians and female impersonators. But be warned--if you go to one of the funny drag shows, don't sit up front unless you can take a little ribbing. The entertainers like to interact with the audience, so don't be surprised if a man dressed as Marilyn Monroe leaves red smooch-marks all over your face and neck...

Author: By Rebecca L. Walkowitz, | Title: Avoiding the Crowds | 2/18/1989 | See Source »

...least that's what the hoofers hope. But the group of old tap dancing pros who sit on the third floor of Sonny's dreaming of the days before rock'n roll can't be sure whether a worn pair of shoes, an old flame and good music will be enough to convince Max to live an honest life...

Author: By Melissa R. Hart, | Title: All That Jazz | 2/17/1989 | See Source »

Juanita Wade, a School Committee member and co-chair of the Student Assignment Task Force which proposed the plan, was quoted then as saying, "The planners did not sit down and say to the plaintiff class, 'what do you want...

Author: By Joshua M .sharfstein, | Title: 'Controlled Choice' in Boston | 2/10/1989 | See Source »

...Civil Rights movement began to blossom in the fifties: the Supreme Court threw out the "separate but equal" doctrine and ordered school desegregation in the 1950s. Rosa Parks refused to sit in the back of the bus in the 1950s. Martin Luther King rose to national prominence in the 1950s. And a man from Missouri, Harry S. Truman, desegregated the nation's armed services...

Author: By Frank E. Lockwood, | Title: In Defense of the Fifties | 2/8/1989 | See Source »

Hope is the first--and only--woman to sit on her firm's executive committee...

Author: By Adam K. Goodheart, | Title: New Member is Top Washington Insider | 2/7/1989 | See Source »

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