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Then all the dummies went back into suitcases. Off to one corner, David Hansen, a hairpiece designer from Chicago, was packing up Eric, who looked just like David Hansen -- same hair, same beard, same face, same clothes. "I drive around a lot with him, and we play with people on the street," David said. "Driving around is my hobby anyway, so I needed somebody along. I have a custom Corvette, and I take off the top and turn up the radio, and he keeps time with the music...
Lyolya was a scruffy little fellow with a ragged beard who talked in conspiratorial whispers, exhaling a fetid odor of garlic, vodka and bad Soviet tobacco. He told Westerners he had been a leader of the Komsomol, the Communist youth group, at a higher-education institute but was expelled from the organization and the school when he spoke out against the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia. He was Jewish and had applied to emigrate, he said, but his parents were influential party members who opposed his departure and blocked his exit visa. He always wore a shabby old U.S. Army fatigue...
...things thinking it's going to be a Pollyanna situation, you won't survive," he observes. Nevertheless, the strain shows. After six months as Liberty Weekend chairman, creating a celebration that is part official, part spectacular and totally public, his normally tanned cheeks are almost as gray as his beard...
When Brian Weiss graduated from UCLA in 1968, he was portrayed in beard and mortarboard on the cover of TIME for a story that described the nation's college graduating class as "the most conscience-stricken, moralistic, and, perhaps, the most promising" in U.S. history. As an editor of UCLA's Daily Bruin, Weiss gained notoriety by writing a column calling the Governor of California, Ronald Reagan, "a liar." With the breathtaking cockiness of his class and era, Weiss breezily declared, "I can see myself as an excellent U.S. President...
Today Weiss's beard is flecked with gray, and he is less sanguine about his future. Since bouncing around academe for six years, he has held a variety of jobs, including a brief stint as executive editor of Playgirl magazine. Still single, he is a free-lance writer and editor living in a rented apartment in Santa Monica, Calif. He has an enviable view of the ocean, but what he really wants, he says, "is to settle down and have a family." He feels funny about turning 40 this year. "Middle age sounds a bit strange because many...