Word: baldingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...BALD SOPRANO got its title when a rehearsing actor missed his lines before the opening performance and delivered something about a bald soprano. Eugene Ionesco liked the term enough to keep it as the play's name, and it's as good a label...
...heroic (into the comic. His Scheherezade the calls her Sherry) is a student at the university and a partisan of the women's movement she would like nothing better than to disrupt the king's indiscriminate slaughter of her sisters, but she has no plan at all, until a bald headed genie from the future (Barth himself) rivers and, having read A Thousand and One Nights, is able to supply her with the stories...
...friends, Gabriel Aranda, 33, a slight, bald onetime journalist and former government civil servant, is known as "the Archangel." But to France's ruling Gaullists, he is something else again. For a week Aranda flooded the press with photocopied letters and documents that made high-ranking Gaullist ministers. Deputies and party leaders look like influence peddlers for private interests. In the process, he became something of a public hero, and left the government of President Georges Pompidou in embarrassed disarray...
...little bald-headed...
...April, when Italian newspapers were speculating that Paul might be the first Pope in modern history to resign the Pontiff gave a talk to some nuns in which he was quoted as saying "I do not want to give up the papacy." Apparently it was felt that so bald an avowal gave too much recognition to the possibility of retirement. The Vatican has just released a tape of the wistful words Paul really uttered: "It would be beautiful to be able to shake off the burden of the church and say I do not want...