Word: beards
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There is nothing obviously theatrical about the Allen Ginsberg who scutters among friends and fumbling technicians. One thirtyish woman in the audience, a "fan," fails to recognize him. Says she: "He looks like any college professor." Gone are the flowing beard, the Zapata mustache, the ragbag tatters. He wears a gray-blue business suit, a blue shirt, muted red-and-blue striped tie, dark socks, black shoes. Offstage he talks with the measured deliberation of a statesman-celebrity...
...AUTUMN of 1925, two Harvard professors were weekend guests together at the Connecticut home of a colleague. One was Lawrence Joseph Henderson, a professor of Biological Chemistry of whom George C. Homans and Orville T. Bailey, two former fellows who chronicled the Society's history, wrote. "[His] beard was red but his polities were vigorously conservative. His method in discussion [was] feebly imitated by the pike-driver." Today Homans is a professor of Sociology here...
Some coaches, including Lou Carnesecca of St. John's, still begin every season by passing around a scrapbook of yellowed clippings from the " '51 scandals"-tattered stories of Sherman White (Long Island University), Floyd Layne (City College of New York) or Ralph Beard (Kentucky). But he may be making a different, unintended point as well. Those clippings are yellowed, and today's scandals just do not make the same sort of headlines...
...infatuated with buses. To him, they represent adventure and his dream of escape to somewhere else." Because Abbott had served a long sentence in Illinois, the detective guessed he would head for Chicago. Majeski knew that Abbott was intrigued with disguise and would probably shave off his beard, so he sent out two descriptions of the fugitive. One identifying mark: the letters J-A-C-K tattooed on four fingers of Abbott's left hand...
...acting suits this blushlessness. Rip Torn as Clyde Stewart lets little pass between his long beard and omnipresent pipe; the very model of a taciturn Scot and rancher, he is a strong, silent physical presence with a reassuring capacity for humor and gentleness. Torn explained his feelings about the role during a recent interview: "I would have done anything to do this film...we all worked for minimum, which after taxes barely covers your expenses." Although the end of shooting saw Torn sufficiently insolvent to borrow money, he remains unperturbed: "Jobs come along and you do them, shitty jobs...