Word: balding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minoxidil as a treatment for severe high blood pressure, stumbled on its potential gold mine when clinical trials indicated the drug had a peculiar side effect: growth of hair on the body, face and scalp. Most intriguing, the hair-raising effect extended to the pates of men supposedly irreversibly bald. The drug is too powerful to be taken internally by people not suffering from severe hypertension, so Upjohn is now experimenting with a topical lotion. The first tests, with balding inmates at the state prison in Jackson, Mich., proved inconclusive. Further studies are being done at Massachusetts General Hospital...
...pass a man with a Marvin Hagler T-shirt. He has a goatee and has shaved his head shiny bald, just like the Champ. That's a real...
...second round Hagler starts to fight. Fully Insured is missing all his punches. Hagler bores in, deeper, deeper, his bald head boring in like a phallus. Fully has two inches in reach but Hagler is the one landing the jabs. He is moving constantly and impossible...
...From Bald Mountain, the highest point on Reagan's land, you can see 40 miles down the California coast and, in the spectacular distance, five of the Channel Islands. At the other end of the ranch, you look down on the Santa Ynez Valley and gaze over heavy, rolling hills that plunge toward...
...record, Brando is the character wearing granny glasses and a hearing aid, the one whose fringe of white hair curls cunningly around a large bald spot and whose corpulence is encased in a wardrobe that seems to have been picked up at a thrift sale managed by the estate of Charles Foster Kane. Brando has also got himself up with a down-home country-boy accent that makes his cynicism terribly appealing-especially in the bloody and lugubrious context of this emotionally unpunctuated movie. His performance is not truly good-it lacks a real edge of sharpness...