Word: beards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Wouldn't it be nice if there really were a fat guy with a white Lou Albano beard and a red suit who would see to the fact that you got the exact records you wanted for Christmas? Instead, we have a bunch of well-intentioned parents, siblings and spouses (present or future) who are responsible for the six copies of Styx's live album that are festering on the bottom of your album collection...
...part of South Boston something very strange is happening. Every day, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., a steady stream of men can be seen entering and leaving this room. When they go in, the men have a vaguely scruffy look and finger a thick stubble of half-grown beard. When they go out, however, they are smooth and trim, clean-shaven, and smelling faintly of lotions and creams. This is the Shaving Research Room, the living heart of the world's largest razor blade factory: Gillette Corp.'s World Shaving Headquarters in South Boston...
VIEWERS OF THE FIRST 1960 debate between Richard M. Nixon and John F. Kennedy '40 remember most vividly Nixon's brooding, perspiring visage, his dark, shifty eyes, and his shadowy beard growth, all of which stood in contrast to Kennedy's composed image...
Samuel ("Black") Bellamy, beard down to his chest and black hair to his shoulders, looked every bit the pirate that he was. In the winter of 1716-17 near Cuba, Bellamy seized the Whydah, an English slave galley named for a West African port. He turned it into a carrier for tons of silver and gold but $ never lived to enjoy his hoard. The Whydah broke up in a storm off Cape Cod, its crew drunk on pirated wine, its cargo lost, its very existence doubted...
...that would make it a crime to possess a readily convertible firearm such as the MAC-10. The National Rifle Association considers such legislation a restriction of constitutional rights, but groups like the National Coalition to Ban Handguns see it as imperative. Says the coalition's executive director Michael Beard: "There's no legitimate sporting grounds for the MAC-10. Nobody goes hunting with a weapon which fires 20 rounds a second...