Word: anointed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Noting that "hair styling is a key element of fashion for the first time since the days of the French courts," the tastemaking Coty American Fashion Critics' Awards committee broke 18-year precedent to anoint a coiffeur. The man of the hour at the solemn presentation ceremonies in Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art: Mr. Kenneth (surname back home in Syracuse, N.Y.: Battelle), who was already famed as clippers and comb expert for Marilyn Monroe, Tina Onassis and Judy Garland, but who achieved the bouffant ("I like to call it uncontrived fullness") summit with Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy...
...midst of such goings on, the body is prepared for burial. In many societies the big toes of the corpse, or sometimes the ankles, are tied together, usually in order to keep the spirit of the dead from wandering around the house. Mongols anoint the forehead of the corpse with butter and then place a yellow willow leaf upon the same spot 72 times. The Buganda remove the intestines from the body, wash them in a kind of beer and save the beer, which is then imbibed by the dead man's widows. In most societies some sort...