Word: flaxen
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...proliferate. (MSNBC has started airing a version of NBC's McLaughlin Group--leather-lunged punditry distilled to its essence--four nights a week.) As with the O.J. trials, Monica has turned sometime "expert" analysts into full-time TV personalities: cybergossip Matt Drudge got a show on Fox News; flaxen-haired lawyer Cynthia Alksne now anchors MSNBC's Equal Time next to Oliver North...
...goes out. Otherwise, like a Jekyll to his Hyde, his hair takes on an uncontrollable life of its own. "It's got its own personality," Norton says, "It does its own thing." Some might say that Norton's hair has the electrified Eraserhead look, but Norton considers his flaxen head in more organic terms: "It's very alive, even though hair is just, you know, dead skin." It even communes with nature, often catching objects like sticks and leaves when Norton rides his bike. Though it "looks kinda funny" and sometimes inconveniences him, Norton isn't planning on cutting...
...ending of which seemed contrived by Debussy to recall the final arpeggio of the earlier "Gardens in the Rain" from his "Estampes." Pollini's mastery of Lisztian technique was evident in the whirling "What the West Wind Saw," and his refined yet poetic sensitivity in "The Girl With the Flaxen Hair," which too often suffers from overwrought performances, made one wish he'd consider recording some Satie...
Lady Henrietta has an eleven year old daughter, Sara, a flaxen-haired nymphet, determined to seduce Jeremy who is initially attracted to her mother and resolutely determined to ignore Sara's persistent advances. Yet he, after much angst-ridden soul searching, reluctantly succumbs to her charms...
Allow me to define my terms. My love for Hillary springs not from her svelte physique nor her ersatz-flaxen locks. (I'm not even sure what that means, but whatever it means, that...