Word: baldingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...properly is not as easy as it might sound. "Hell no, we won't go." quips a recalcitrant young man, face painted red, white and blue. Some mill too fast, others too slowly: still others stare into the camera when they should be ignoring it. Italia, a billiard-bald extra known as "Miss Bald America," sidles up to Charles in mid-song, plops down behind her and stares fetchingly into the camera. Cut. Hausman, neck veins bulging, yells at her; she leaves, muttering, "I bet he's bald under that cap." Hausman reshoots the scene successfully-until...
...Kojak-bald Moslem, Daoud had been beset by rising unrest. Complaints about climbing prices and feckless administration mounted, and were exploited by an increasingly active Communist movement called Khalq (the masses). Last month, a Communist leader was killed in Kabul, sparking a demonstration by thousands of mourners, who took the occasion to protest the murder and, for some reason, to shout anti-American slogans. The subsequent arrest of half a dozen leftist leaders may have triggered the coup...
Observed from afar, the Kirkland magnetism looks as easy and inevitable as a natural force. Fish gotta swim, birds gotta fly, and look at that woman up there on that stage. This illusion, indeed, this bald-faced lie, is the tribute art pays to perspiration, not to mention a flinty intelligence that knows exactly what the body is up to every second of a performance. Says Gelsey: "As unnatural as dancing is, you have to find a natural way of doing the unnatural...
...writer has perforce abandoned a well-learned profession for the typewriter. Kojak-bald Al Nussbaum, 44, was on the FBI's Most Wanted list in 1962; convicted on seven charges of bank robbery (he won't say how many other jobs he pulled), Nussbaum served 14 years in federal pens where he became a prolific and successful crime writer, mostly for Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. He now turns out screeds under his own name, which is German for nut tree, as well as Alberto Avellano and A.F. Oreshnik, which have similar meanings in, respectively, Spanish...
...Bald Soprano...