Word: bearding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...silver locks and hand-woven toga flying, he launched into a frantic soft-sandal jig. The Dior-dressed segment of the crowd dug it deep. But the modern beats, obviously distressed that no food and no smoking were allowed, did not get the scene at all. Said one bewildered beard to another: "I don't know what this cat is laying down, but I don't pick...
...that comes nearest to being Robbins' own is the gossip gimmick. He picks a public personage who has figured in lurid headlines, changes his name and a few unimportant details, and writes the novel around him-leaving him as difficult to identify as Liz Taylor in a false beard. In the case of The Carpetbaggers, although of course Robbins would deny it, the model for the main character was erratic Millionaire Howard Hughes. The book conforms to most of what is publicly known about Hughes, and the reader is clearly intended to assume that the lurid remainder is steaming...
...promptly plunged into their own debate-not over what they really should or could do about Cuba, but mainly over whether or not they should try to issue a communique. Although one was finally produced, it was hardly calculated to cause even one grey hair in Castro's beard. It recognized the obvious-that "the Sino-Soviet intervention in Cuba is an attempt to convert the island into an armed base for Communist penetration of the Americas and subversion of the democratic institutions of the hemisphere...
When it was all over, a benumbed Patterson was unable even to say which punch had finished him. Disguised in a beard that he bought before the fight, he drove home to Scarsdale, N.Y., to await his $1,185,253 share of the $2,183,750 take. In the dressing room, newsmen pressed in on the new champion, himself $282,015 richer for his brief night's work. "Wait a minute. Wait a minute," hollered Liston's pressagent to the yelling mob. "This here is the heavyweight champion of the world. This is Mr. Liston...
...Rutman, wearing a purple sweatshirt, blue denims, a three-day beard, and a pair of black leather shoes with gold buckles, explained in detail his personal painting, his philosophy of painting, his life history since about 1950, his academic background and his views on museums, and his feelings about Boston. And in case he forgot anything, his wife was there with the baby to tell us more...