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...feet were the hardest part. First there was a gold ring to fit onto each big toe, and then two tinkling anklets to snap into place. Finally the soles of her feet were painted red. But it was not just for kicks. Heiress Barbara Mutton, 51, a Protestant, was marrying Laotian Painter-Chemist Prince Raymond Doan Vinh Na Champassak, 48, a Buddhist, and they were doing it his way. Babs had never tried a Buddhist ceremony, and so this time around it was a sari affair at her $1,500,000 estate near Cuernavaca, Mexico. There were seven tiers...
...Hands. Her recollections of a Brooklyn girlhood are somber. "It was pretty depressing, and I've blocked most of it out of my mind," she says. She never knew her father. He was a school teacher who died of a cerebral hemorrhage when his daughter Barbara Joan was a year old (1943). Her mother spent the next three years lying in bed, crying, and living on her brother's Army allotment checks until the checks stopped and she took an office job. Barbara spent her days in the hallways of the six-story brick apartment building they lived...
That was only a shield to keep the name Barbara Streisand from getting bruised by uncouth hands. She had no desire to drop her own name-"because I wanted all the people I knew when I was younger to know it was me when I became a star." She hated her first name, though, and took an a out of it to shape it up. Today she likes to tell interviewers: "I don't care what you say about me. Just be sure you spell my name wrong...
Steve, a hippic musician currently shacked up with a stripper named Barbara Seville, is accosted by Natalie in a Union hiring hall. "Were was it now?" he muses lecherously. "Grossingers? Brooklyn? The Catskills?" "Never mind that!" hisses Natalie, every inch the petulant mousketeer. "I'm going to have a baby...
...Miss Barbara Groneweg, West German educator and political scientist, is planning to study adult education programs and volunteer political activity in the United States. Dr. Alexandra Pittelli, of Brookline, will complete training for her residency in pediatrics and at the same time fulfill the requirements for board certification...