Word: blonds
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...production value, I said, "Mom, could you put on this tin helmet and this army surplus uniform and drive the Jeep through my shot?" And she'd drop everything, climb into the Jeep, race out behind Camelback Mountain and helter-skelter barrel through the shot, hitting the potholes, her blond hair sticking out from under the pith helmet. And I would have my "production value." My $7 film suddenly looked like a $24 film...
...court to show me the photos of all the personnel of the Soviet embassy at Sofia," he said. "I will surely recognize him." He went on to describe the alleged Soviet conspirator as being 5 ft. 11 in. tall, with a "long and full face," glasses, blond hair and a "sporting appearance...
Grove acknowledges his own limitations, as any credible advice columnist must do from time to time. A recent exchange went this way: "I am young, female and blond. Almost every time I deal with a male client, I'm 'hit on.' I want to be nice, but I'm finding it harder and harder to be nice to someone who talks to my breasts instead of my face." Grove's response: "Not being young, female or blond, I find myself unqualified to give you suggestions. Businesswomen, please write and tell me how you have been coping with this problem." "Dear...
...pederasty is condoned, but rudeness is considered a crime against the state. The government bureaucracy includes the absurdly named Ministry of Clams, a sort of dead-letter office for all insoluble problems, whose minister believes that attempting to solve them would be "a mockery of the human condition." Blond-haired people, regarded as inferior, are downtrodden. Under Saint Sebastian's Enlightenment, the schools offer a nonstop curriculum of American B movies of the 1930s and '40s, with nuns serving as ushers and priests cranking the projectors...
...adjustment was a tough one at first. "Everybody thought I should have blond hair and blue eyes--I have brown hair and brown eyes. But I surf--not very well. I play a beach sport. I take things that are not significant lightly." He was not the typical Harvard freshman, if there is such a thing. Three of his four roommates were devoted to academics, but school was never Doyle's biggest concern...