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The thousands of letters Burra wrote to his close friends, now archived at the Tate, may bounce along in high camp style – men are routinely referred to as "she", and everyone is "dearie" – but it remains essentially a textual performance.
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For everyone else, there's "Dearie," the biography by Bob Spitz, new on the hardcover nonfiction list at No. 6. Spitz has previously written about the Beatles and Bob Dylan, and he evinces the music fan's pleasure in arcana and turning up picayune personal quirks and peccadilloes.
Women he liked were called "dearie" and trusted male friends "Old Cock".
The reply is, "Scientific American, dearie".
One thing I'm really hoping, dearies, Is that Cleveland won the Series.
"The remaining white population now is mainly seniors," Mr. Dearie said.
Women of theatre are kinder and when they meet on 44th St .ask "Found anything you like yet, dearie?" Answer is "I told Lee Shubert I wouldn't take role for any price; its unsympathetic".
"The desserts are over there," Dearie said.
Ms. Dearie was for years closely associated with Mr. Frishberg and Mr. Dorough.
Though Dearie was initially trained as a classical pianist, she gravitated to jazz while performing with a high-school band.
In matters of interpretation, Dearie was a stealth bomber who with the tiniest inflection could insert a note of scathing sarcasm into a performance.
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