Word: atop
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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 Sutherland and all of his own family of six. "It is a true hairstyle," he says, "unlike the faking and teasing that makes so many women over...
Speeches and things: Speakers stand atop sound truck, and we all drip sweat. I write down every word I can get for the Post; don't feel like going through it again here. Spell speakers' names, with great difficulty, in French for woman from Montreal newspaper...
Insert finger, tug and quaff: in those few seconds, the aluminum ring atop a pop-top can of beer or soda fulfills its function and becomes instant junk. Garbage men hate the rings because the sharp edges can cut. So do barefooted hippies and strollers on the beach. So do conservationists, who lament the litter. To at least one man, however, pop-top rings are a source of inspiration and income-and the raw material for a revival of a medieval fashion...
...magnetic field. Still unconvinced, Kemp and Swedlund considered other factors-stray molecules in interstellar space, for example -that might have distorted the dwarf's light. But repeated observations produced the same results. Finally, Columbia University Astronomers Roger Angel and John Landstreet, told of the strange readings atop Pine Mountain, quickly verified them with more powerful telescopes and slightly different techniques at Arizona's Kitt Peak National Observatory...
...attend a banned rock festival in Turner Falls Park. Worried about "drugs, nudity, free love and lawlessness," Governor Dewey Bartlett blocked the kids with 300 National Guardsmen. In Anaheim, Calif., about 300 garishly garbed Yippies "liberated" Disneyland. Before the cops arrived, the raiders hoisted a Viet Cong flag atop a fort on Tom Sawyer's Island and yowled slogans like "Free Mickey Mouse...