Word: balding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mint has struck some handsome coins over the years, the buffalo nickel and the Kennedy half-dollar among them. But the Government's 1984 silver dollar, designed to commemorate the Summer Olympics, is drawing a chorus of catcalls. One side of the dollar, portraying a bald eagle, is pleasing. But the opposite, or "heads" side, contains no heads at all. It features the bare torsos of a male and a female athlete, apparently standing atop the Los Angeles Coliseum, the principal site of the Games. Sniffed Coin Columnist Ed Reiter: "It is quite possibly one of the ugliest coins...
...married after his father's death, denied him the money he had earned. A court battle left the actor with only $126,000, though the controversy resulted in the passage of California's so-called Coogan Act, which puts all juvenile earnings into court-administered trust funds. Bald and obese in middle age, Coogan never regained movie stardom but charmed a new generation as the ghoulish Uncle Fester in television's The Addams Family...
...cartoons with the stubble and the jowls--do you realize that I have feelings too?" And in many ways the writers of the play themselves are cartoonists who place Nixon in the most humiliating light possible and mock him; theirs is the mentality of postcards that show a bald Reagan in nothing but his sweatsocks. At the beginning of the play, Nixon spends 10 inept minutes hemming and hawing the words "Testing: one, two, three...uh...uh...four," while fumbling with a tape that keeps blasting out the Goldberg variations. Nostalgically, he reminisces about all the dopey things he loved...
...former radio program director who formatted stations to fit the tastes of the listeners it had, and the listeners it wanted. He did the same thing when he started to develop MTV in mid-1980. "Where is the Woodstock generation?" Pittman asks. "They're all old and bald." Pittman, who is suited and blow-dried, went after what he called "the TV babies. The set is part of our lives, we want it to respond to our every need and desire." He corralled an ad agency that promptly recycled a famous cereal slogan of the early 1960s ("I want...
...opposing camps both speak with Southern accents, but there the similarities end. The challenger, Chairman T. Boone Pickens Jr., 55, of Mesa Petroleum in Amarillo, is a dashing, salty Texas oilman who delights in telling earthy jokes. The defender, Gulf Chairman James E. Lee, 61, is a bald, straitlaced native of Mississippi who sometimes leads prayers before gatherings of his board of directors. While Lee has spent his whole career plodding through Gulfs corporate ranks, Pickens is a free-spirited dealmaker whose company has bought and sold stakes in three other oil firms in the past two years, earning more...