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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...apparition like the singer himself been glimpsed around the White House lately-without being arrested on sight, that is. Bearded, sporting jeans and sneakers, with a bandanna tying back his shoulder-length red-brown hair and an earring dangling from his left ear, he comes on like some improbable blend of Celtic bard and Hell's Angel, with a smile straight out of Huckleberry Finn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Country's Platinum Outlaw | 9/18/1978 | See Source »

...Bandanna is rolled on the diagonal, and retains water fairly well. I keep it knotted around my head, and now and again dip it into the river. The water is forty-six degrees. Against the temples, it is refrigerant and relieving. This has done away with the head-aches that the sun caused in days before. The Arctic sun.--penetrating, intense--seems not so much to shine as to strike. Even the trickles of water that run down my T-shirt feel good. Meanwhile, the river--the clearest, purest water I have ever seen flowing over rocks--breaks the light...

Author: By Peter R. Melnick, | Title: Notes from the Tundraground | 12/12/1977 | See Source »

After that outburst, Fromme virtually dropped out. Because she refused to leave her cell, she had to be carried to the courtroom. She would arrive with her eyes blindfolded by a red bandanna that she tied on herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRIALS: Fromme's Fate | 12/8/1975 | See Source »

...under suspicion had one peculiar similarity. At the first, one of the two men who entered the building stood at the door and counted out the seconds to one minute, then yelled, "Let's get out of here!" At the second, a woman, who had a blue bandanna pulled over her face, stood by the door and counted off the time. She noted every 30 seconds until, at 1½ minutes, she began ticking off every second. At two minutes, she too yelled, "Let's get out of here...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RADICALS: Scared She's Going to Be Killed' | 10/20/1975 | See Source »

...Prek Phnou, which is only eight miles from Phnom-Penh, three T-28s dropped napalm on a paddyfield, causing orange flames to spurt across the open area. Three Cambodian youths in ragtag uniforms came trudging down a dirt road; one wore a purple bandanna around his head, another a Pathet Lao peaked cap from Laos, and the third had on a fatigue jacket and red bathing trunks. But all three carried M-79 grenade launchers slung across their slender shoulders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Cambodia: Before the Fall | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

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