Word: ducktail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bruce Babbitt always seemed a most unlikely politician, even at his tiny high school in the mountains of northern Arizona. An A student with thick glasses, he dressed plainly and paid no heed to the '50s fashion for ducktail haircuts. He took piano lessons, served as an altar boy, and was voted "most courteous" in his 1956 yearbook. A friend recalls that Babbitt was too small for football, so he worked as the team's equipment manager, "and you know what kind of turkey that...
Obsessed with losing his virginity and seething with high spirits, he skips school frequently to shoplift in exotic West Berlin. Agee admires the ducktail haircut, listens to Chuck Berry on American Forces radio, and after flunking eleventh grade, is "tried" by his somber, adultlike classmates of the Free German Youth organization. He makes a final battle to unite with the masses: he finds work as a shipyard laborer. But Agee's fresh starts are doomed by an inner turmoil. His attempts at poetry, painting, music and love end in failure. Near the end of his endurance, his parents...