Word: beards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carlin was a suit-and tie stand up comedian with straight punch-line jokes playing "straight middle-class saloon jobs". That was the year he split up with partner Jack Burns and became a solo act; since then his comedy has gradually changed. "By '69 I had a beard and an open collar and a vest," he says. "I had already become half of the person I was going...
...joining the Show Biz Kids in Hollywood by the swimming pool and the shapely bods. The wiry Irish class clown and streetcorner toker from White Harlem still enjoys visiting his mother in the old neighborhood, and seems to gain perspective on his life as he ages. Soon his funny beard will turn gray--and age and eternity aside, it is painful to imagine that George Carlin will become a prisoner of his own words...
Castro's famous beard is necked with gray. His green fatigues have been artfully tailored to all but conceal a midriff bulge. Cuba's "maximum leader" will turn 52 in August. He has ruled Cuba for 19 years. Fully 45% of his 9.7 million subjects were born after Fidel and his guerrilla band came down from the Sierra Maestra and marched triumphantly into Havana...
...very picture of an old New Hampshire sheep farmer, complete with white Lincolnesque beard and a bun of graying hair tucked under a shepherd's cap, turns out to be Bob Richardson, a former candymaker from the Atlantic City, N.J., area. Richardson gave up the trade to become a sawmill worker after some health food fanatics convinced him that candy is poison. Now he lives in Rumney, N.H. (pop. 820) with his three sheep. Says he: "A neighbor had these two, and they were going to be slaughtered if they weren't sold. So we bought them...
Graphic sneaked into a lavish stag party to secretly record unspeakable acts performed by a naked circus troupe. That her camera caught her own father in midslather and led to his financial ruin was of little concern. Her ambition had already driven her to beard a haughty Alfred Stieglitz in his own studio-with his own camera. Other victims of Maude's lens included D.H. Lawrence, Eugene O'Neill, Ezra Pound, Raymond Chandler and Robert Frost, "the biggest son of a bitch I was ever to photograph." E.E. Cummings, T.S. Eliot and Thomas Mann get flattering portraits...