Word: balding
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...advance men running around with clipboards; overly efficient volunteers bossing one another and everyone else around; dour Secret Service agents in double-knit suits mumbling to one another through microphones hidden up their sleeves. At the center of the hubbub, surrounded by a phalanx of plainclothesmen, was "the Man"-bald, stocky and distinguished by the world's most famous eye patch...
...bald like baby birds...
...room melliflously known as 'Burr B' must have been designed with tricksters like me in mind. The room is constructed along the dimensions of a Aztec temple, giving the person sitting in the last and top row a fine range of the classroom, perfect for taking notes, counting bald heads, and spitting. For three years, I have taken finals in that room, and every year I try to improve on myself...
Long John enjoyed Kojak for its simple, uncluttered black and white structure. No complexity, no troubling questions of historical perspectives or methodological approaches. Simple. Bad guys versus good guys. Black and white. Each episode opened with a violent crime. Kojak would be called in--the bald, wise-cracking New York cop specializing in homicide and a professional hater of a) crooks, b) rich crooks and c) the rich, who probably were crooks anyway or they wouldn't have so much money. Kojak would eventually solve the case in his alloted hour or so and dispatch the criminal by bullet...
Style? From the bald pate to the thin cigars to the vested suits, Kojak exuded a distinctive charm. (Long John learned from his barber that a shaved head was now a "Kojak" --in the old days they had been called "Yul Brynners.") Sure, he was rough, often abrasive. Admittedly there was little of the intellectual about him. But who would you want when you faced a cornered pack of diamond-smuggling mobsters: Theo Kojak or John Finely? So much for urbanity. And for all his gruffness, Kojak could display that heart of gold all macho crime fighters are obliged...