A woman portraying the 11th Century Lady Godiva, but wearing a flesh-colored bathing suit, rode a horse to the Capitol on Friday and sang a tax protest to the governor's receptionist.  Liise Root, 22, a "singing telegram" woman hired by the Libertarian Party, dismounted and walked into the Capitol, where she handed a written protest to receptionist Mae Shaw and sang a Beatles song:  "I'm the tax man, yeah, the tax man.  And you're working for no one but me."

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "A woman portraying the 11th Century Lady Godiva, but wearing a flesh-colored bathing suit, rode a horse to the Capitol on Friday and sang a tax protest to the governor's receptionist.  Liise Root, 22, a "singing telegram" woman hired by the Libertarian Party, dismounted and walked into the Capitol, where she handed a written protest to receptionist Mae Shaw and sang a Beatles song:  "I'm the tax man, yeah, the tax man.  And you're working for no one but me."" in the context of ""Lady Godiva reveals Libertarian grievance," Eugene Register-Guard (Eugene, Oregon, Saturday, April 16, 1983), p. 4A." to mean that wisdom is timeless.