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to talk like a GG."

My answer is, stop feeling like an idiot and try to imagine the impression your femme-image makes on other people every time you boom forth with your basso resonances! Don't try to "falsetto", just soften your tone, don't project, and enunciate more precisely, more crisply by moving your lips like GG's do. Have you ever noticed how many men hardly move their lips when they talk? May be you are one of them. Do not carry that trait into your girl-image.

And speaking of TV parties, something has to be done to put more "zing" into them. The impression-- at times--is that you are attending a wake. TV tim- idity? Shyness? Oh, come on girls! How about pre- paring a few jokes--or maybe some social games. Sheila's GG has the right idea!--or how about a little entertainment: a monologue, card tricks, a dance maybe...or why not an impromptu skit in which everybody is assigned a part...the field is wide open for ideas. Let us not just sit in a corner with a sickly grin on our made-up faces while we imbibe beer after beer after beer!! Ugh! Please don't misunderstand me. I'm not against drinks, but I hate to see drinks become the only activity that stimulates a TV at a party.

I received a very nice letter from a new TV from Brazil. Name is Rita. Writes in very good English and has been getting a few TVias. She says she likes this column, although she does not always agree with me. Heavens forbid! She says in part: "I don't quite understand why Virginia had to give her opposing point of view directly after your script." - What's wrong with that, Rita? To me it makes a lot of sense. If Virginia - or any TVia reader wishes to express her viewpoint about some- thing I'm saying here, the place to say it is right after this column! This way the readers have a bet- ter chance to see the two sides of the coin and draw their own conclusions. This is particularly desir-. able inasmuch as a good many things I say are slightly

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