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...rage at New York City's Kenneth salon, where some 500 customers are moussed each week. Says Owner Kenneth Battelle: "It adds structure to that particular look." Mousse also spruces up older styles. Neinast did two mousse make-overs of Actress Susan (Dallas) Howard's long, flyaway tresses. The result: "a tousled and layered look that's fuller...
...extra oomph affords additional milliseconds of hang time during which gymnasts can twist and twirl through the same maneuvers as a high diver's. For male gymnasts, wooden dowels inserted into their leather handgrips allow a lock-grip on the high bar and make possible daring-young-man flyaway tricks like the Gaylord II (see box page...
...individual competition on the high bar, and the Soviets' Alexander Tkachev went first. He was trailing Kurt Thomas, the finest male gymnast in U.S. history, by just .025 points. Leaping up to the bar, Tkachev spun through a series of dazzling maneuvers. He launched himself into a twisting flyaway somersault, swooped down, then grabbed the bar a split second before crashing to the floor. Finally, Tkachev arched his body high above the bar, twisted through another flying double somersault with two half-twists and landed flawlessly, arms outstretched in triumph before the judges. Long minutes passed, then the score...
...Last Tycoon is a reasonably scrupulous adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's unfinished tragedy about the strange refractions of Monroe Stahr's life. It makes for a flawed, divided movie, sometimes full of cool, funny insight, sometimes crippled by the flyaway myths of movietown...
Helmholz's tonsorial firing for effect is the result of complaints from customers whose fine, flyaway hair made them look more like Ben-Gurion than Ben Gazzara. Helmholz first tried to solve the problem with an old barber's trick: burning the ends with flaming candles. The knobby, stunted ends weighed down the hair and made it lie flat, all right, but Helmholz's Nob Hill clients waxed eloquent about tallow dripping down the backs of their necks. So Helmholz, 33, began experimenting with a small blowtorch and soon found it the perfect tool: "It is maneuverable...