Word: beards
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...true that we instinctively consider that a beard is something a Democrat does, not a Republican. If you saw two men standing side by side, one bearded and one clean-shaven, would you not, if asked which man belonged to which party, assume that the Democrat was the guy with whiskers? But surely these are stereotypes. Think of Robert Bork's ridiculous chin-strap...
...Here we enter upon advanced beard studies - the consideration of differentiated beard styles. Bork's neat, even prissy clip bespeaks something of a law-and-order personality deriving from the Ice People, even as it gestures a little confusingly in an Amish direction - not the full rectitudinous C. Everett Koop model, but a thinner version thereof...
...world's most famous lefty beard is Fidel Castro's moth-eaten, air-conditioned number, a brilliant and durable trademark that has never been sufficiently backed up by the man's hormones. Rule One: A wispy, unpersuasive beard, through which the facial skin is clearly visible, tends to subvert a "strongman's" machismo...
...Gore grow the beard...
...Camouflage. Disguise. Respite from recognition, and from the necessity always to be onstage, the focus of a million eyes. Jackie O would have worn a beard if she could have managed...