When she called, she called only for Naima, who also called her Mama.
But in her personal life, for the last three decades she has called only one place home: a three-acre Civil War-era property in the Rockland County hamlet of Blauvelt.
She calls herself only Miss Miss, but she can fill the whole theater and summon up a couple of other characters as full-bodied as herself.
She is not afraid to make fun of WASP eccentricities, and even includes what she calls the "only WASP joke I know".
But in her first book, she turned to her own experience working as a gardener during the first world war and wrote a polemic that would be radical in any age – she calls not only for a complete re-examination of the relationship of employers and their servants but of the nature of domestic work itself.
Liz is seeking closure after breaking up with her boyfriend Floyd during the summer and a chance encounter with Seinfeld gives her the advice she needs, so she calls Floyd only for another woman to pick up the phone.
She said the vendor, Epic Travel, of King of Prussia, Pa., one of the firms the commission has filed charges against, never returned her calls until she wrote that she had retained a lawyer; then, she said, the firm called only to say that it had no record of her calls and that it was too late to get a refund.
Her staff, she says, knows that she wants to be called only "if the safety of the republic is in question," and, thankfully, that hasn't happened yet.
She has a song called "Only Woman DJ With Degree," and on "Bam Bam" she sings in a birdlike patois, "I'm a lady / I'm not a man / m.c. is my ambition".
During Ms. Rubin's first year at Explore, a parent called her up, screaming that she ignored her son and called only on the white students.
