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Word: combs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unit's function was to help reform the ills of the country, and Evans thought it was an artist's function to describe life. Stryker thought that the meaning of the pictures was clear, and Evans found the best of them inexhaustibly mysterious." Evans would always let people comb their hair and arrange themselves as they wanted to, for he felt that this was not only the only respectful approach but also the most revealing. The very impersonality of Evans's photographs for Let Us, Now Praise Famous Men results in specific, ungeneralized view of people, just as Agee...

Author: By Sage Sohier, | Title: The Flaubert of Photographers | 5/1/1975 | See Source »

...home appointment. Like the avenues of another decadent empire, all of the loads in Shampoo's Los Angeles lead to George's beauty salon, where George sets the hair of beautiful women and then takes them home to bed. Moving between salon and bedroom, comb and penis, shampoo and sperm, George is the denizen of a bizarre world whose plastic kaleidoscopic glitter Beatty exploits in his farcical look into the sex scene of the L.A. beautiful people...

Author: By Michael Massing, | Title: Soggy Suds | 4/10/1975 | See Source »

...that she had high blood pressure. But it was not until two years ago that she realized what it meant. One day, a friend told her that she was slurring her words; her boyfriend noticed that she was limping; she herself found that she could not comb her hair. She then drove to a hospital, where she learned that she had suffered a stroke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONQUERING THE QUIET KILLER | 1/13/1975 | See Source »

...impossible that still further charges will emerge; 12,500 cu. ft. of tapes, records and other Nixon documents remain in the White House. They would normally belong to a former President, but because they may contain evidence of crimes, there will probably be some effort to comb through them before they are handed over to Nixon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE LEGAL AFTERMATH: CITIZEN NIXON AND THE LAW | 8/19/1974 | See Source »

Ever careful of possessions, he once called Anjelica in London from Rome to ask: "I can't find my comb. Did you pack it?" She found it and, much relieved, he responded long-distance, "O.K., take care of it for me." He is sometimes subject to gusty emotions. Friends say he has cried when seeing them off at airports. He calls back home to Rain every Christmas to get the traditional family recipes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Star with the Killer Smile | 8/12/1974 | See Source »

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