University Daily Kansan. April 8. 1982
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Stripper
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"Those black pants couldn't get much higher, could they?" one woman commented.
DINO EMPHASIZED the throbbing beat of the music with pelvic thrusts. Gyrating across the floor, he stripped down to a red, glittering G-sstring.
One woman, maybe a little braver after a few highballs, ventured onto the stage to award the dark-haired dancer the first tip of the evening. As he stepped forward and backward over the railing, when she placed the bills in his G-string, Dino thanked her with a kiss.
"I lift weights during the day. I dance at night and have lots of girlfriends," the woman
"I take it seriously that I look good and that I'm a good dancer."
Dino left the stage to more whistles and sighs.
It was, of course, ladies' night at the
Platium Playhouse - Thursdays, as always
For the past year, Mandacina has hired male burlesque dancers to draw the women of the city.
The Playhouse is one of about eight clubs in Kansas City, Topeka and Lawrence that have featured male dancers for ladies' nights entertainment.
In Lawrence, the start started at the Flamingo Club, 501 N. Ninth St., and continued at the Playhouse and occasionally at
the Mingles. Ms. Mississippi St., and Mingles,
2223 W. Shrub St.
"I come out here to get away from it all. It
takes time, and it's good therapy," one woman said.
"I think it's great! Women have been doing it for men for years" is about time women had to do it.
Besides providing entertainment for the women at ladies' nights, male dancers can rake in large sums of money from one night's work.
THE BASE RATE of pay for male strippers ranges from $25 to $70 a night depending on the club and how much experience the dancer has. For a single dance, are added to his base pay each night he works.
The coveted tips are also an indication of a desire to remain as well as a large portion of the biceps.
You have to know your audience", 'Rich a,
25-year-old KU student and part-time dance-
you can hold a crowd in the palm of your hand, but there also the chance of falling flat on your back.
The money was his biggest reason for beginning to dance, he said.
"I began dancing because I was broke. It was electrifying an egg trip, and I got caught up in the moment," he said.
"Now, it's just a job. It'll be nice not to dance, but I can't argue with the money."
A stripper can collect more than $5 a night in tips and audience he pleases or he can take them away.
"It's a risk—tips make you or break you," Dino said.
Back in the club, the women waited eagerly for the next dress. Wry, blond-headed Mark
"It's fun, energetic and it keeps me feeling young," the 25-year-old stripper said.
"I always wanted to be an entertainer.
Here, you're in control and comfortable,
and can entertain you with what you want."
Mark, who has been dancing for three years, said he spends the day running, tanning and playing pinball.
"Always found a notch at something—something I'm good at," he said.
ON STAGE, Mark began to undo his black leather jacket, black chaps and sunglasses.
He quickly stripped down to a G-string and pulled it off to reveal a second, smaller G-string. He danced off the stage and threw the woman in a deep seat. The woman, a woman seated there, She blushed and let it fall.
As Mark continued his routine, Dino wandered through the audience barely
covered in a G-string, carrying a drink and
cutlery out kisses and dancing on chairs and
tables.
Mark finished his routine by peeling off the second G-string and revealing a third, still smaller. G-string, which consisted of two thin sticks and three rounded tips, stage to prepare himself for the final number.
"We're quality performers." Mark said. We don't get any allyse people. We're a party company.
Dino and Mark are both members of a male dance troupe called First Class Male. The 12 members of the troupe perform in groups of three or four at the Kansas City, Topeka and Lawrence clubs that hire male dancers. They also perform at private parties and take occasional road trips to other Kansas towns, such as Dodge City.
All the dancers had performed twice, and it
was 10 n.m. — finale time.
stripped again.
The women mobbed the stage for the last
Dancing to "Macho Man," all the dancers stripped again.
By the end of the act, half of the audience was on stage dancing with the strippers,
Even after the dancers left, some women lingered on stage. A few left to go home, but most stayed for the second half of the evening as the men outside crowded the doors to get in.
Sound economic future seen
By United Press International
A top economist in President Reagan's administration said yesterday that the recession was all but over, but that unemployment—now 10.5 million—a growing number would likely remain high through next year.
Robert Dederick, assistant secretary of commerce for economic affairs, also said that how well the economy recovered would partially negotiated action to cut federal budget deficits.
Afterward, House Budget Committee Chairman James Jones, D-Dokla, said a bipartisan compromise to reduce the deficit under the Obama administration month to avert pertious economic consequences.
And House Republican Leader Robert Michel of Illinois said Congress and the White House must come up with about $30 billion in tax increases, plus significant spending cuts, to keep the 1983 budget deficit below $100 billion.
Dederick told reporters that while the administration thought the recession "has just well blown itself out," what he predicted to be one of the best post-war economic recoveries depended largely on a federal budget that reduced deficits in the years ahead.
After deficits are decreased, he said, interest rates could be reduced, which in turn would allow recovery in housing, automobiles and other sectors of the economy.
Investors in the financial markets interpret federal decisions as meaning high interest rates on credit.
"It is of great importance that steps be taken
that budgets deficits are declined," Dedekind says.
Investors on Wall Street yesterday ignored current economic trends and looked toward a compromise on deficits, which resulted in mixed trading.
Soap opera actress commits suicide
By United Press International
LOS ANGELES—Brenda Benet, who for four years played the scherping, often faced accusations of inscrutely "days our Laws" 'shot and killed herself in an apparent suicide yesterday, police said.
She was 35.
A police department spokesman, Lt.丹 Cooke, said Benedy's body was found by her secretary and police officers who broke down the door. The officers acted 'spectacularly' Parkaide, Calif., area home.
Cooke said a gun was in her hand when police found the body.
Benet was the former wife of actor Bill Bixby, the star of the series "The Incredible Hulk" and appeared regularly in the soap opera since 1979.
Freeze
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"At this time, the plants are smart enough to know that it's still cold outside and can rely on their own mechanisms to keep warm," Mathes said.
The plants may need to depend on those mechanisms tonight, because temperatures are expected again to fall below the freezing mark, and therefore they will not be right for the National Weather Service in Topeka.
"There's a very good possibility for freezing temperatures tonight and Friday morning." Cory
The lows were expected to be in the upper 20s today, he said.
He said freezing temperatures over the weekend were doubtful.
The last average date for freezing temperatures in northeast Kansas, Cramdall said, is October 19.
Falkland
secretary, said that in Kingston, Jamaica, the British blockade announcement had been no surprise to the White House, but he dented that Haig had been sent in response to the British
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The U.S. diplomatic offensive—the first break in the crisis since Argentine troops invaded the Falklands on Friday—damage both countries' relations, and force them to act as a "honest broker" to settle the dispute.
But leaders in both capitalis vowed that, if necessary, they would fight for the islands, which have been a disputed British colony since 1783. The colony is inhabited by 1,800 people of British stock
"Britain," he said, "does not appease dictators."
"We intend to see that the Falkland Islands are freed from occupation and returned to British administration at the earliest possible moment." Britain's new foreign minister, Francis Pym, told Parliament to cheers from the Conservative bench.
Weather
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Major airports, including Boston's Logan International, Connecticut's Bradley International and the Portland, Maine, International Jetport, reopened yesterday after white-out conditions reduced visibility entirely overnight.
Most colleges and secondary school classes were canceled, and state and local governments maintained skeletal staffs as plow crews battled floods. The residents of England roads with drifts even after being cleared.
Temperatures across Kansas ranged from freezing in the northeast to a sunny 80 degrees in the south.
Precipitation fella mainly over the eastern third of the state in the form of rain, sleet and snow.
Yesterday's afternoon temperatures were in the lower 30s over the northeast and in the 40s through the central and southeast portions of the state.
Mid-60s to mid-60s were reported over the northwestern 70s, while southwest temperatures in the 70s to
High ranged from 40 in Lawrence and Pitt-
ton to 54 in Bucktonhill, 39 in Topknot, 49 in Wichita,
and 57 in St. Louis.
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