Word: ducktail
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...need big names." You don't need a big bankroll, either; Werewolf cost less than $150,000 to produce, by last week had taken in a monstrous $1,700,000. Another Cohen production, being rushed onto film before other mon-stermakers start blood-and-ducktail thrillers: I Was a Teenage Frankenstein...
...killing a policeman, Hurbie Franklin Fairris Jr., a pasty-faced 22-year-old with a ducktail haircut, was electrocuted last week at the McAlester, Okla. State Penitentiary. Hurbie had an interesting history. When he was 16 months old, an uncle was electrocuted in Texas for the murder of a prison guard. A few years later Hurbie's mother, who separated from his father when Hurbie was very small, shot her second husband to death. She got out of that one on self-defense, but when she killed her third husband, she drew a five-year jail term. Hurbie...
...resented and looked down on by other Americans. Jobless, misunderstood in their own homes and unwelcome outside them, they had fallen into the companionship of misery. They dressed alike, in the most exaggerated and outlandish costume they could afford: knee-length coats, peg-top trousers, yard-long watch chains, "ducktail" haircuts...