Word: beards
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...MELVIN PICKS UP in the desert doesn't. With a wild mane of white hair and a beard to match, he has obviously given up on society, checked out. Yet in their conversation in Melvin's truck--the first scene of the movie--the bum emerges as more than a derelict. Melvin wants to sing Christmas carols; his guest doesn't. He is ungracious, cold and strangely snide for a man of such decrepit circumstance...
...detective pauses, stroking the underside of his gray-black beard, before explaining that all three clues pointed directly to the same moral-crime syndicate. The conspiracy, however, was actually much larger than it first seemed, involving not only cowards and congressmen, but also journalists, lawyers, psychiatrists, the American Civil Liberties Union, Hollywood, and Harvard...
Hayes described the suspect as about 35 years old, a 5-ft., 10-in. man with black hair and a beard, weighing approximately 175 pounds...
Today the Brothers cook for themselves--a chore to some, an art to others. Josh is the James Beard of the House. He even looks like him, only with hair. Josh knows he's good. He enters his spacious culinary atelier by 2 p.m. on the days he is creating, and he does not emerge with his weary assistants until well after his masterpieces have been consumed and eulogized. Maybe someday, Josh hopes, the Brothers will name a dish in his honor, as they do for all legendary House cooks...
...than the newsreel footage--the herky-jerky pace of old movies jars the viewer, and even then everyone insisted on waving and posing for movie cameras. Two animated cartoons shown in movie theaters demonstrate the depth of feeling against the Wobblies--in one, a rat (wearing the requisite Bolshevik beard) tries to steal an ear of corn from the stockpile of a virtuous farmer. Fortunately, the farmer's vigilance matches his productivity, and he exterminates the rat (labeled "Bolshevist--IWW") with two quick shovel blows. The music in the production is less authentic and less moving--sung too well...