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...future luminaries, including John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Donald Hall, Adrienne Rich, Harold Brodkey, Alison Lurie, Robert Bly and Robert Creeley. By sophomore year O'Hara and Edward Gorey, his roommate at Eliot House, occupied the center of a flourishing artistic and social scene whose campy, brittle style was a bald rip-off of Oscar Wilde and characters out of Evelyn Waugh and Ivy Compton-Burnett...
...step to the capital's nonelectronic bulletin board, the Style section of the Washington Post, where staffers described themselves as "stunned" and "demoralized," and Robinowitz climbed down so fast he scorched his pants. "I was having a bad-hair day," he explained to the Post, "and I'm totally bald...
...LEADING BRITISH POETS appeared together on a platform at Hull University. One was Ted Hughes, the widower of Sylvia Plath: intense, leather- jacketed, trailing a romantic aura. The other was Philip Larkin, an overweight, bald, bespectacled and partly deaf figure in a dark suit who later described himself as providing the "sophisticated, insincere, effete, and gold-watch-chained alternative...
...BOTTOM LINE: Same orphaned kid, same doggy pet tricks, same bald tycoon, but definitely not the same...
...looks like the city of the future. Not that Loren Christensen would agree; the gang enforcement officer with the Portland police maintains that his town has "tolerance for different life-styles, as long as they're liberal life-styles. There's no tolerance for skinheads." Yet rival gangs of bald men with tattoos have now lent this chamomile-and-bean-spro ut metropolis a Mad Max edge...