Word: apes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...show's repeated numbers, its A-is-for-Ape approach, could make it only an electronic classroom, hammering data across. But there is something more: a Lewis Carroll-like humor, the cleansing sense of the absurd...
...looks like a pile of leaves partially eroded by blight, or like a wet mop, upended, after a hard day on the kitchen floor. But this particular disaster area is no accident; it is a hairstyle, the purposeful creation of coiffeurs who see "the Ape" as the newest, most chic head around...
...short-long cut.'' says Stylist Vidal Sassoon, "is the only right and logical combination to wear with the new fashion lengths." Leonard of London, who insists he invented it. is so happy with the Ape cut and so virtuoso at it that 75 top Japanese hair stylists flew in last week to study his techniques. Julie Christie, Mary Quant and the cast of Hair have all left theirs on English cutting-room floors. In Paris, the Duchess of Windsor, Mme. Herve Alphand and Claudia Cardinale have gone for Alexandre's version of the style; Elizabeth Taylor...
Actress Judy Carne, who turned up with the cut on Laugh-In, was told, "It's untidy." "That's it. You've got it," she replied. "The messier it is, the better," says Stylist Gene Shacove. "If an ape cut it himself, it would probably be a bigger hit." Manhattan's Paul McGregor, longtime advocate of the cut, gave it its first public exposure a year and a half ago atop the head of Actress Jane Fonda. McGregor, who sees the style as not only ageless but sexless, has monkeyed with Warren Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald...
...Ape has its practical advantages. Starting out unruly, it never looks worse growing out, needs nothing more than a trim every four months. For women who feel Pollyannaish with short hair, the hank at the neck lends reassurance if not beauty. And for those who want to go simian but are slightly squeamish, there is always Sassoon's new way out: the Veil, with a long thin screen of hair completely covering the face. Blinking, obviously, is a nono...