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...Latin: "Anything that is reasonably civilized is likely to have an underlying wit." Somewhat more intense in her approach, Bujold studied Sir Alec's every gesture, the better to play her own part. She watched him admiringly as he delivered his soliloquies; at other times she dared to curl up to the distant Guinness in the manner, as Caesar says to Cleopatra, of "both a girl...
This new twist to an old curl looks very little like its predecessor. Instead of tightening into frizzy ringlets, the hair strands fluff out in graceful waves or very floppy curls-what celebrated Coiffeur Vidal Sassoon calls a "marvelous, curly 'Greek boy' look." As another hairdresser puts it: "The difference between the old permanent and a careful unpermanent is the difference between your first dress and a Balenciaga...
...secret behind the unpermanent is a new kind of odorless setting solution that is much milder than the old stuff and produces a looser curl. Moreover, the choice of rollers is generally the sausage-sized ones instead of the familiar skinny kind used for the standard permanent. After the hair has been set, the stylist applies the lotion-sometimes uniformly, often just on some parts of the head, leaving the remainder of the hair straight for an unusual textured effect. Once this is done, the hair is partially dried under a heat lamp in a scant 20 minutes, then blown...
...only two poets are listed (the late W.H. Auden and Robert Lowell) and four major novelists (Mary McCarthy, Norman Mailer, Saul Bellow and Philip Roth). Popular critics also appear: The New Yorker's film reviewer Pauline Kael, who is in the third group, a fact that may curl the lip of New York magazine's theater critic John Simon, who just squeaked into the fourth and lowest category. Half of the chosen live within what Kadushin calls "lunch distance" of New York -a 50-mile limit he considers convenient for day trips to the city. Wherever they live...
Staring Witness. At 6:35 p.m., as the first trace of smoke began to curl up from the dwelling, a black woman staggered out, her face puffed and cracked by the tear gas and a smear of blood showing on the back of her white blouse...