The Michigan Daily-Tuesday, June 15, 1982-Page 5
BEWARE OF MESSENGERS BARING GIFTS
Strip-t-grams: A unique greeting
By GREG BRUSSTAR
Imagine celebrating in a restaurant
among friends on your birthday.
Everyone is raising glasses and toasts.
Then a tall, voluptuous woman walks in
and disco music begins to blare. To
your amazement, the woman starts a
swirling dance and begins to shed her M
clothing to the music.
What is going on? It's a Strip-t-
gram-a new service to Ann Arbor
which is alternately delighting and em- .
barrassing people throughout the city.
THE ACT lasts about 10 minutes
while the music plays and the dancer
discards her outer clothing to reveal a u
scanty leather bikini, which is kept in
its place at all times. The cost for a
Strip-t-gram is between $45 and $55,
depending on travel distance for the
performer.
The Strip-t-gram service was started
in Ann Arbor two weeks ago by Beverly
Lashbrook. She worked for a similar
service in California before deciding to
move back to Michigan, her home
state. She recently merged with
Penelope Frey's Dance-a-gram.t
Both women are models in the Detroit
area. Frey also teaches a modeling
workshop in Ann Arbor and is a Univer-
sity graduate.
LASHBROOK said she started Strip- CUSTOMERS AT Ann Arbor's Smuggler's Inn look on in amusement as a Strip-t-gram is delivered. Two men and two
t-gram because "it's a lot of fun and we women perform the unusual service.
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to the Architects for Social Responsibility - they are
supposed to "Build homes, not bombs."
Some, such as the Beer Drinkers for Peace, took a
lighter (headed) approach; as they urged leaders:
"Don't bomb us, we're already bombed. '
"I DON'T KNOW if I'll experience anything like
(the march) again for the rest of my life," said Julie
Edgar, chairman of the board of the Ann A:rbor
chapter of PIRGIM. "It was a very uplifting ex-
perience, everyone was so orderly."
"It'll have an efect, if only to make the public more
aware," said Edgar, one of hundreds of participants
i-nuke protest draws thousands
from the Ann Arbor area.
"When you get that many people it does mean
something," said Edgar.
THE MOVEMENT has a long road, speakers told
the crowd repeatedly. The rally, organizers said,
isn't the end.
"Go home, get organized," singer Baez urged, to
thunderous applause from the mass assembled on the
Great Lawn.
The state of Vermont seemed to put a delegation in
every section of the park. "I think all of Vermont
must have emptied out," said David Litt of Syossett,
New York. "Ther emust be no one left in the state
right now."
FIVE THOUSAND New York Police lining the
streets of the march route, were ready for possible
trouble, but the day passed with out a hitch.
"This is a very respectable rally," City police of-
ficer William Vincent said. "There are no problems
here because it's not that type of march."
"They are just here to say what they want, and they
are saying it."
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Israelis
surround
PLO forces
in Beirut
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"The figure of 600,000 is completely
inconceivable," said Moshe Yegar,
deputy director-general for information
in the Foreign Ministry. As to the death
toll, he said, "one cannot talk about
10,000 - it's impossible."
Secretary of State Alexander Haig
said yesterday in Washington that
plans to resume the Camp David peace
process for the Middle East, including
Palestinian autonomy negotiations, will
be put off because of Israel's invasion of
Lebanon.
"Clearly with the situation in
Lebanon and the associated uncertain-
ties, and until that situation has been
clarified, it would be difficult to go on
with the peace process as such and the
autonomy talks in particular," Haig
told reporters.
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