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...where coveralled owners lavish on their animals care that would do credit to Elizabeth Arden. In one stall a West Texas matron in toreador pants, see-through blouse and perhaps the last bouffant hairdo in Western civilization teased the tip of her Hereford's tail with a hot comb. Her loving efforts were of little avail, however; most of the significant Hereford trophies went to Winrock Farms, owned by a former Governor of Arkansas name of Winthrop Rockefeller...
Middle-age panic is an adrenaline that flows through many American novels. The hero's symptoms seldom vary. The taste of a stale marriage is on his lips. A run-of-the-treadmill job is under his feet. Falling hair is in his comb, and gray rather than great expectations cloud his eyes. Literary ways of dealing with this theme naturally vary. The approach chosen by Luke Rhinehart for his first novel is to consider the middle-age heebie-jeebies as a condition of the soul, angst-laden with boredom and despair...
...comb your hair and look quite cute...
...force, is living his usual abnormal life. At his training camp in Miami Beach, he heads an entourage that looks like a touring vaudeville act. There is Bundini, the cornerman and personal mystic who calls him "the Blessing of the Planet"; a handler whose sole job is to comb Ali's hair; assorted grim-faced Muslim operatives; imperturbable Angelo Dundee, his trainer since 1960; Norman Mailer; Actor Burt Lancaster; Cash Clay Sr. in red velvet bellbottoms, red satin shirt and a plantation straw hat; the Major, a high roller from Philly who tools around in a Duesenberg; and Brother Rahaman...
...toughest time came two years ago, when the surge of black pride led to more natural hair styles, specifically the Afro, which severely scissored demand for straighteners and the other hair relaxors. Johnson responded by introducing Afro Sheen, a product line that includes hair spray and a "comb easy" shampoo for the natural look...