Word: coiffed
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...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...
Uncluttered Coif. The authentic Hamill is a short cut with a thick thatch of bangs that flops over the brow, meets the cheekbones and brushes the top of the ears. In the back, the hair is shaped into a sharp, neat triangle. If it looks at all familiar, hairdressers say, it is because the basic style has been around for several years. It was not until Hamill's Olympian efforts, however, that the wedge gained the edge as one of the headiest coiffures in town...
...fuss with their hair-of brushing and spraying and curling." To Fashion Designer Rudi Gernreich, the wedge is simply part of the new concept in dressing. Says he: "American women are beginning to be clean again, getting rid of the clutter." Some of the converts to the uncluttered coif: Dancer and Choreographer Twyla Tharp, Actresses Carol Burnett and Mackenzie Phillips, and Sheila Weidenfeld, Betty Ford's press secretary...
...Lilac Coif. Three of the most diverting larger pictures are by anonymous masters. The Prato Master is responsible for an exuberant Birth of the Virgin, in which graceful Florentine ladies foreshadow those in a similar scene by Ghirlandaio. The ironic hand of The Master of the Cloister of the Orange Trees can be seen in two scenes from the life of St. Benedict...
...Looming above the onlooker, Pontormo's Angel Gabriel is shown as a dissipated Florentine gallant with an exquisite shell-pink ear, hennaed locks and a flattened head. As for the Virgin Mary, she is both innocent and sophisticated, a strangely languorous vessel of the Lord, whose fashionable lilac coif emits a greenish, phosphorescent glow...