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...Fans of Myra Breckinridge-that beautiful, transsexual, all-American succubus-will recall that she was last seen in a hospital bed after having the silicon knocked out of her by a hit-and-run driver. To save her life, Dr. Mengers rebuilt and re-endowed her as Myron Breckinridge: the man, in fact, who Myra had originally been before a sex-change operation transformed him into a her. Though the doctor fashioned a generous "rehnquist" for the new Myron, he did not provide him with a set of "powells...
...arts at Harvard became "coordinated" this year, with the appointment of Myra Mayman as Arts Coordinator. But it was difficult to tell. Her Office of the Arts came out with an informational newsletter a few times near the end of the year, but little else seemed...
...nonsense words of Myra Wolfgang, a vice president of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, typified the mood of the more than 3,000 blue-collar women who gathered in Chicago in late March to form the Coalition of Labor Union Women (CLUW). Instead of recipes, the representatives from 58 labor unions discussed ways to end sex discrimination in wages, hiring and job classifications. They also resolved to organize more of the nation's 34 million women workers (only 4 million belong to unions) and to elect more female officials (though more than 25% of the AFL-CIO membership...
Paula Shepard and Myra Durkin singing vocal duets, accompanied by Susan Youens. Works of Monteverdi, Faure, Schumann, Rossini, Brahms. Free. Sunday, April...
...will be a while before Myra Mayman can safely "fling" herself into her present job even though people expect action from her immediately. She says that she does not want to be badgered into purely administrative work, but as yet she has seen few of the undergraduates who are supposed to be her primary concern. She cannot avoid the controversial debate that has surrounded the role of the arts at Harvard for decades. And in order to sort out all of its intricacies, Mayman will undoubtedly have to draw on her varied experience as well as on her enthusiasm...