Word: balding
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...Half-bald since his 20s, Boyer never wears his toupee offscreen, and recently-as his parts have aged-he has been leaving it off while performing as well. He is a sleepless man-an hour of tossing for every five minutes of slumber. He has been married for 30 years, and has been an American citizen for 22. His wife was an English actress who gave up her career soon after their wedding. Because of his stability and longevity, Boyer is presumed rich, and he probably is by anyone's standards but his own. "I'm not rich...
...resembles a monk's cell. A few books lay on an oak table; there was an iron bed, a worn pair of slippers tucked underneath. A tall, narrow, curtainless window looked out on a garden where a summer rain pelted the leaves of a great elm. Rubbing his bald head, Hermand reminisced...
...delighted London as George Bernard Shaw's favorite lead (Heartbreak House, The Apple Cart) that he was knighted in 1934, after which he crossed the Atlantic to keep them chuckling on Broadway (30 productions) and in the movie houses as one of Hollywood's Typical Britishers, bald pate, frosty visage, deadpan drollery and all; of emphysema; in Manhattan...
...event each year is the Grove's two-week hideout. Some 2,000 Bohemians and guests rough it in 100 different camps, ranging from tiny wooden shelters to elaborate lodges bearing bizarre names like Poker Flat, Star and Garter, Bald Eagle, River Liars and Lost Angels. The Grove routine is pretty shapeless, although each year a couple of glittering original shows are staged beneath the trees. This year the Bohemians did a musical about murder in a whorehouse called Dammit. Who Done It? in which, presumably, the moral was that too many crooks spoil the brothel. Occasionally, particularly learned...
...words of outrage, demands for justice, pleas for moderation, and abhorrence of violence seem terribly hollow and inadequate now. In the North, the bald fact of death for men who might have been friends, or sons, is evocative enough. In the South, the language is not the same; the paradoxical meanings of justice, law, and minority rights make our words impotent...