Word: baldingly
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...Bald, gross, and illiterate Emile a Tae, 64, half-caste Tahitian son of Painter Paul Gauguin, used to let tourists take his picture for a few francs, just enough to keep himself in beer. Now, at London's prestigious O'Hana Gallery, his own childlike oil-on-canvas pictures are bringing from $700 to $1,400 apiece, and he has learned to sign them Emile Gauguin. He has reformed too, says fortyish mentor, Madame Josette Giraud, a French writer who bailed him out of jail several times and put a paintbrush in his hand. When word gets back...
...Durante, the gentleness of Gandhi, and a stupidity that is all his own. He swaggers about the slums of Rome in what he demurely describes as "sportswear": moldy sneakers, maggoty jodhpurs, a blazing blazer apparently made from an old American flag. His head sticks up like the little bald ball on top of a flagpole. His nose and his chin all but meet in front of his mouth, as though trying to hiri-d-and well they might. His mouth is a little round hole that looks as if a big fat worm lived down there-and one does. Beneath...
What's wrong with Dion? He is anything but pathetic looking, and saying that he has a little voice is like saying President Kennedy is bald. Dion has everything a rock-'n'-roll singer needs, especially hair...
...Sarah, who has been assigned the number 11 leaps to her feet: "Sarah is cute and dirty!" The class roars. The game grows in complexity, until at length one boy is able to make the rolling pronouncement: "I am very, very, very, very, very eccentric, cute, well-liked, nice, bald...
...trade has gone up at least 200% in just the past year. "It used to be men of 50 or 60 who would come in," says Mandel. "Now it is men of 30 or 35. It's part ego and part it's just annoying to be bald." Though show biz types like Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra are still leaders in the wiggy set, "ordinary people are going in for the same routine," says Mandel. In San Antonio, whose wig merchants claim the sale of more hairpieces per capita than anywhere in the U.S., most...