Word: coif
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hair cut back. Thereafter he drove the Senate barbers wild with his persnickety instructions for a presidential trim. He ordered Frances Fox's special amber hair tonic rubbed into his dome daily on the campaign trail. He refused to wear a hat lest the felt crush his coif...
...take a ship for the American cause from its owner, played by Al Pacino. Lennox took the demands of making her first movie in stride, including repeated dousings with buckets of water for a rainy scene. The rocker was also asked to cover her close-cropped coif with a long red wig. "It went with a fiery personality," explains Winkler. Right now Lennox is drying out her pipes in preparation for a new album and a worldwide tour that will begin next summer. By then, any emotional chords she strikes are sure to be voiced in a proper Scots burr...
EXHIBIT C: Tyrone Hayes' flamboyant outfit would have been well suited to the rock-'n'-ready atmosphere of New York's Danceteria. Sporting a Prince coif and pointy, sparkling shoes, the crowning jewel of Hayes' snazzy saturnalia was a pair of unlinked handcuffs, which he wore as arm bracelets...
...this stage in his career, Steve Martin has a little problem too. In the '70s he was a stand-up-comic sensation. A dream of all-American vacuity with his careful coif, phosphorescent white jacket and conventionally handsome features, Martin came on like a silly Robert Redford, a would-be stud not quite as gorgeous or with it as he thought he was−but lots funnier. When Martin turned to feature films (with The Jerk in 1979), the challenge was to transfer the soul of this character, this smart dumb guy, into the svelte body of a comic...
...college plans and take over the family ranch when Sandra's grandfather died. "I only applied to Stanford and no place else," said Sandra. She rushed through her undergraduate work and law studies in just five years, graduating magna cum laude and joining the honorary Society of the Coif, which accepts only the best law students. She won a post on the Stanford Law Review, where she met her future husband John, who was one class behind her. She ranked in the top ten in her class scholastically. So too did Rehnquist, who had graduated six months earlier...