Word: balding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Good looks have always been at a premium in Hollywood, but in the '70s men who looked odd, unusual or perhaps just real-a bald Telly Savalas or an impish Robin Williams-also achieved TV stardom. "It was the heyday of the average guy," says Joel Thurm, head of talent for NBC. "The country was prosperous. People were relatively satisfied with their lives and were able to laugh at themselves a little more. Now we're looking for heroes again. We want fantasy and glamour...
...personalities are somewhat different. Though King, like Washington, is the only Black candidate in the race it is unlikely that he can unify a bloc the way Washington did. The Democratic nominee for mayor of Chicago was quite mainstream, himself a congressman from the area. But King-bald and bedecked in beard and mustache-is an original and radical thinker who may alienate the conversative-though steadfastly Democratic-electorate...
Jorge Luis Borges, 83, Argentine author, on last year's island war between Britain and his country: "The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb...
...time events have increasingly felt it necessary to embrace something cuddly, furry or feathery as their mascot-to be licensed for everything from tote bags and T shirts to coffee mugs and lobster bibs. The Moscow Olympics had a bear, the 1984 Los Angeles Games have a bald eagle, and for the 1984 Louisiana World Exposition, the city fathers of New Orleans picked a pelican. Last week the bird showed up at a Louisiana-sponsored State Department reception, to the amusement of Secretary of State George Shultz, 62. Perhaps his department needs a mascot too. How about a giraffe (elegant...
...course it is not done, either for Hula, Cruz, Wally Liberty (the pilot of the boat) or Hula's girlfriend Lisa Bishop. It is bad enough that Arthur Rawden, a canny investigator for the Drug Enforcement Agency, has picked up their scent. It is worse that a mysterious bald man continues to stalk Cruz, threatening to kill him and his associates. Worst of all, some of the ablest hired guns on the East Coast have converged on Miami, with orders to pay Cruz $10 million for the dope and then kill him, preferably over a long, long period...