![]() ![]() Another, who described herself as "adrift" after the death of her husband six months earlier, seems essentially homeless. One asked for a hole to be cut in her ceiling so the babies upstairs could get some heat. ![]() Hard-working, careworn women with Midwestern accents told of their bad jobs, husbands out of work or jalopies on their last legs. Though he endeavored to keep the tone light, the sad stories of the women, mostly culled from Southern California, eked out a portrait of desperation not far removed from the Dust Bowl just a generation or two earlier. To the most horrific news, about a baby's brain tumor or a little girl's fatal crash, he'd usually just cock his head and say, "How about that? You don't say?" then quickly follow: "Do you have any other children?" He doesn't seem to help matters as he tries to hold their hands, interrupt them and coax out their sob stories. The women who appear in the DVD episodes are mostly terrified, perhaps because they're on TV, perhaps because they have to deal with Bailey, who resembles a smiling Thomas E. It's no surprise he began his career as a carnival barker, as his voice expands to bellow the show's trademark beginning, "Would YOU like to be QUEEN for a DAY!" With his slicked-back hair and pencil mustache, the one-time cartoon voice for Disney's Goofy was an odd presence on TV then or now. Bailey clowned on the stage as if he was on a stage show broadcast for radio, wiggling his hands behind Baker as if trying to distract him, wagging his foot-long microphone, hooking his thumbs in his lapel pockets and seriously winging it on the live shows, often interrupting his own thoughts.Ī lot of the show was the 50ish Bailey. Send us feedback.A new three-disc package from First Look Media, which comes without booklet, commentary or much of an explanation, purports to contain the only seven surviving episodes of the show that ran nearly 20 years and crowned 5,000 queens.Īs a show, Queen for a Day was likely more tied to radio than the new medium: Its announcer, Gene Baker, just as often read commercials as opposed to cutting to them. These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'conjure.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2022 Today, these nostalgic foods conjure memories of love, foster family connection, and offer salves for the tough days. Courtney Howard, Variety, 23 June 2022 The flashy performances are a tribute to the actors’ talent-especially Gyllenhaal, González, Dillahunt, and O’Donnell, who conjure a sense of spin on leaden absurdities. Sam Kiley, CNN, 30 June 2022 Songs can be like time capsules, messages from the past that conjure powerful images and emotions, transporting us back to milestones in our lives with a signature sound. ![]() 2022 But a democratic, free, EU member state on Putin's doorstep with a substantial Russian-speaking population is the sort of personal existential threat that must conjure up the images of Libyan leader Colonel Moammar Gadhafi's ignominious demise. Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 3 Aug. 2022 The images are a nightclub fantasia that conjure the sense of decadent escapist release dressing up to dance all night promises. 2022 Cue up a rogue's gallery of supernatural manipulation and bloody misadventures, milk baths that conjure evil doings, and spells that cause people to vomit kittens. Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 7 Sep. 2023 As Li and his team reported recently in Nature, the difference between memories that conjure up a smile and those that elicit a shudder is established by a small peptide molecule known as neurotensin. Recent Examples on the Web Michelle Robinson, another Californian, uses artificial intelligence not to imitate human thought but to synthesize photos that might conjure childhood memories. ![]()
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