MONTPELIER — A superior court judge won’t block next Tuesday’s budget revote in the Montpelier Roxbury Public School District after dismissing a lawsuit he concluded was too little, too late.
By Sandra Niemi
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You didn’t need to be a pubescent boy (or his father) to fully appreciate the charms of Maila Nurmi a.k.a. Vampira when she first appeared on late-night KABC-TV in the spring of 1954. But it didn’t hurt. She was tall, beautiful and frightening and she screamed like a banshee, climaxing each howl with a lewd lick of her full lips, which even in black-and-white glistened bloodily. Her pale body was almost a caricature of an hourglass figure, like one of those inexplicably bountiful women featured in the pinups of Joaquin Alberto Vargas, for whom Nurmi had modeled only a few years earlier. But what made Vampira most memorable was the jokes she slyly delivered at machine-gun speed: pop, pop, pop. She came heavily armed with oodles of sexy, macabre puns and she wasn’t afraid to use them.