Word: queene
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DIED. ANN CALVELLO, 76, fiery Roller Derby Queen and a reigning icon of the American sport cum spectacle since the 1940s; in Burlingame, Calif. Cast as a villain who relished boos from the crowd, she reached her zenith in the '60s as a star of San Francisco's famed Bay City Bombers. With purple, green and polka-dot hair, tattoos and a flair for elbow-throwing, the Meanest Mama on Skates endured 12 broken noses and numerous cracked ribs competing over seven decades...
...food supply and, in order to reduce the epidemic, the food supply needs to be reduced,” an Oct. 17 resolution said. In November, the City Council’s Ordinance Committee held a public hearing on the rat problem. At the hearing, a Cambridge resident, Wanda Queen, said “she caught five rats in her home in one day,” according to the hearing minutes. Economy Hardware and Home Center on Mass. Ave., which agreed to sell sealed containers for a reduced price of $12 each, has seen a spike in sales during...
...hatched by Los Angeles--based interior designer Kelly Wearstler. Best known as the gimlet eye behind such hip hotels as the Viceroy Santa Monica and colorful stores like Trina Turk in Palm Springs, Calif., Wearstler is the queen of Hollywood Regency, a decorating style that blends French Regency, Greek Revival and classic Hollywood. Wearstler's zingy oeuvre is at the forefront of what could be called haute femme, a taste for ornamentation and romanticism that is emerging as a major new trend in commercial and residential design...
...Clooney was the evening?s (and Hollywood?s) epitome of intelligent hunkitude, Witherspoon was Oscar?s darling, Hollywood?s homecoming queen. She presented one prize, accepted another. She was also the subject of one of the show?s very funny ?attack ads? (voiced by Stewart?s old Daily Showcrony, now cable TV?s favorite mock-scold, Stephen Colbert) against every Actress nominee but good old American Reese...
...coincidence. "The shows have to be relevant to the inmates," says Michael Moody, Chicago's director. "There has to be something in them that they can play on and show off with. And, the shows are a bit naughty, too." The productions earned Kani an award from the Queen, and some ex-cons have moved on to jobs in theater and film. But, Kani says, "I don't do this to make them into drama darlings. I'm trying to teach them how to be disciplined, how to focus themselves and how to achieve something. It isn't just educational...