Word: curler
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wielding his familiar giraffe-tail fly whisk, octogenarian Kenyan President Jomo Kenyatta, 85, this week will welcome more than 3,000 delegates from 152 countries to Nairobi's Kenyatta Conference Center-a building that looks like a 350-ft.-tall hair curler. The occasion: the quadrennial meeting of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), a group set up in 1964 primarily to give poor countries a forum in which to air their economic problems. In its three previous gatherings, UNCTAD has produced an elephantine mass of paper but little of substance. UNCTAD IV, which will meet...
JUST ASK Our Lady of the Suburbs. Women now can play the games of men. King proved that. And not only can they do anything that men do, but they can be 'feminine' at the same time. Billy Jean was advertising a hair curler, wasn't she? And didn't Howard Cosell say that with longer hair and no glasses she'd be a looker good enough for the movies? Ladies rejoice, the vindication of women has arrived. The war is over, Billy Jean King finished...
...girls in pedal pushers and curler rolls who once listened to Elvis are now pushing 35 or 40, and the ducktailed boys of the '50s no longer have grease in their hair-if they have hair at all. Elvis, however, still sounds and looks almost like 1957. His hair, to be sure, is a little less shiny, and the famous Presley pout, an expression of his nearly platonic narcissism, has been replaced by the genial smile of acceptance and affluence. After 32 movies and untold millions in box-office receipts and record sales, Elvis at 37 is in many...