Word: beards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...BERNARD BEARD, 32 Uemployed, Los Angeles
...which Baldwin's 14-year-old black hero, John Grimes, takes a headlong run down a hill of melting snow: "At the bottom of the hill, where the ground abruptly leveled off onto a gravel path, he nearly knocked down an old white man with a white beard, who was walking very slowly and leaning on his cane. They both stopped, astonished, and looked at one another. John struggled to catch his breath and apologize, but the old man smiled. John smiled back. It was as though he and the old man had between them a great secret...
...warm to friendly relations. The choice of Ben Elissar, 48, a close political ally of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and a former high intelligence official, to be Israel's first Ambassador to Egypt seemed hardly reassuring at the outset. Eventually, however, Ben Elissar, with his trim pharaonic beard, became a familiar figure in Cairo. Gratified by the change, he observes: "An Israeli in Egypt is not considered today with the same curiosity I sensed a year ago, when people looked at you and seemed to ask, 'Are you on the side of the angels or Satan...
...alleged leader of the heist, Harold James Smith, is a strapping 6 ft. 2 in. and sports a bushy beard usually complemented by a cowboy hat and gold-rimmed sunglasses. His past is something of a mystery. During the 1960s, he worked in the civil rights movement with Stokely Carmichael. In 1976 he turned up in Los Angeles promoting concerts with stars like Shirley Bassey. His business association with Muhammad Ali began a year later, when Smith sponsored some amateur track meets...
...Desert demanded a few changes. First, the Yiddish inflection was traded for an Italian accent. No problem there, since Steiger had played Pope John XXIII in And There Came a Man (1968) and, for that matter, the title role in Mussolini, the Last Act (1974). Next, the full, rabbinical beard had to go. Finally, Steiger's impressively shaggy head had to be shaved. But how closely? Over this hairy point, a heated argument arose between Steiger's makeup man and Producer-Director Moustapha Akkad. Luigi Galbani, 63, the barber at Rome's Excelsior Hotel, intervened. "II Duce...