Word: blonde
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hollywood claimed the story first in 1918 with a silent version and then in 1933 with a triumphant adaptation directed by George Cukor and starring Katharine Hepburn at her warrior-goddess best. A 1949 remake is remembered chiefly because it featured Elizabeth Taylor as Amy, wearing a blond...
...academic barnacles that too often make an evening of Shakespeare feel like a final exam in Esperanto, and they allow the playgoer to focus on the emotional gaiety and bewilderment at the heart of the text. What could have been minimalist camp -- oh, Lord, men in pearls and blond wigs! -- becomes a sweet meditation on mistaken sexual appetites and identity...
...front of Widener Library, Michelle C. Sullivan '96 said she saw a man moon-walking while wearing a blond wig and one white glove...
...Next room: a 16-year-old girl named Jean, up all night on speed, paces back and forth, desperate for a cigarette. A tall, green-eyed blond, Jean ran away from Minneapolis, Minnesota, six months ago with $50 in her pocket and a fake I.D. She left a suicide note on her bed. "Let's just say my family really sucked," she says. "I can't say who I hate more, my mom or my dad. God, I need a cigarette!" One of the tweakers tumbles into the room to announce she has just found a small fragment...
Runaways who really don't want to be found quickly adopt street names, often such crude synonyms as Lunatic, Fury, Speedster or Dopey. "Never tell anybody anything, that's my rule," says a 16-year-old from Ukiah in northwestern California. The slim, blond youth -- call him Billy -- says he spent a year living in a stairwell near the Scientology center on Hollywood Boulevard after his parents kicked him out of the house: another story of drugs and alcohol and late-night fights. On a good day, Billy earns $10 panhandling; he stuffs the money in his shoe. That...