Word: bald
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What no Republican calculations took into account was Kirk's charm. A tall, bald man with a big voice and a booming laugh, he jokes, he chats, he hugs and pats his way through a room. The 48-year-old Democrat made a sparkling career by forging alliances across ideological and racial lines, from his election as senior class president at a largely white Austin high school through two runaway victories as mayor of Dallas, a Republican citadel. When George W. was a Governor toying with the idea of a run for the White House, his nickname for Kirk, then...
...What no Republican calculations took into account was Kirk's charm. A tall, bald man with a big voice and a booming laugh, he jokes, he chats, he hugs and pats his way through a room. The 48-year-old Democrat made a sparkling career by forging alliances across ideological and racial lines, from his election as senior class president at a largely white Austin high school through two runaway victories as mayor of Dallas, a Republican citadel. When George W. was a Governor toying with the idea of a run for the White House, his nickname for Kirk, then...
...BEST HAIR Carlos Valderrama set the bar too high in Italia '90 and USA '94?nobody even came close to the Colombian's golden dreadlocks. Amid a riot of bad hairstyles at this Cup, the most distinguished look was bald. Take your pick from Sweden's Henrik Larsson, Brazil's Roberto Carlos and England's Ferdinand...
...reach. They come from every state in the union, climbing to the crest of Skyline Road to see what remains of the now legendary Flight 93: absolutely nothing. With the crater long ago filled in, they can only gaze out on a rolling field that protrudes like a bald spot from a grove of hemlocks. "The horror of the event and the beauty of the place are so stark," says Edward Linenthal, the author of The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory, who visited Shanksville in December. "It reminds me of the extermination sites the Nazis built in such...
...mainstream? Quentin Tarantino had a moment in 1994, but that's all it was. Moby, however, is three years into his ride as the king of both hip and heartland. He's a dance musician who plays rock songs, a devout Christian who hates religious fervor, a scrawny bald guy who dates Christina Ricci and Natalie Portman, and an operator who sold every track on his last album, Play, for corporate use while often wearing a T shirt for anarchist punk group Minor Threat...