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Clad in tacky ball gowns, they make their entrance with Wagner's ride of the Valkyries, wielding spears and boas with imperious belligerence as they battle for the spotlight. The performance is presided over by a folksy/bitchy hostess, ``Miss Sylvia Bills,'' a Kewpie-doll look-alike of ``America's Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FALSETTOS AND FALSIES | 1/30/1995 | See Source »

Clad in tacky ball gowns, they make their entrance with Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries, wielding spears and boas with imperious belligerence as they battle for the spotlight. The performance is presided over by a folksy/bitchy hostess, "Miss Sylvia Bills," a Kewpie-doll look-alike of "America's Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MUSIC: Falsettos and Falsies | 1/16/1995 | See Source »

A similar misplacement of ballots actually occurred during a Cambridge school committee election in the 1980s, according to Spears.

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Galluccio Declared Walsh's Successor | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

"When I fanned through her second batch of ballots, there they were," Spears said.

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Galluccio Declared Walsh's Successor | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

"The worker, instead of putting the ballots to the left, put them to the right, or vice versa," Spears said.

Author: By Sewell Chan, | Title: Galluccio Declared Walsh's Successor | 12/19/1994 | See Source »

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