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Police grabbed Viktor Shashkin, 19, an awkward, gangling youth with big, vacant eyes; Vadim Vorobiev, 17, with a dangling forelock and a crooked smile that revealed a gold cap set on a healthy tooth-a standard affectation of the stilyagi; Igor Kostiuk, known as "Harry,"* and pockmarked Viktor Sergeev. Usually, by Russian definition stilyagi are the no-good children of the well-to-do-"spoiled brats with plenty of money, time on their hands, a doting mother, father's Pobeda car." But all four of these youths, workers at the Moscow ball-bearing plant, came from workers' families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Zoot-Suiters in Moscow | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...sorely tried inquisitors: Arkansas' weary, sardonic Senator John McClellan, chairman of the Senate labor rackets investigating committee ; New York's finger-waggling Senator Irving Ives; and Hoffa's most implacable enemy, Committee Counsel Robert F. Kennedy, 32, who would give his celebrated forelock to see Hoffa jammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Slippery Jim | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...board. The new wife soon finds out that he is still in love with the old, that he does not want her to be herself, but only to be "like Rosanna." Impossible. Rosanna was a yes woman; Gioia is one of those passionate natures that take time by the forelock and life by the throat. "You look like a slob!" her husband roars. "Why don' you be like Rosanna?" And Gioia tells him fiercely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Dec. 16, 1957 | 12/16/1957 | See Source »

...answer, delivered lovingly by Omnibus, over ABC, was yes. In an uninterrupted hour and five minutes of clean-plucked verse and smoothly paced action, Producer Robert Saudek and Director Alan Schneider demonstrated that television can carry art into the living room and be at home there without touching forelock or shuffling in embarrassment. Drama Critic Walter Kerr condensed the Dudley Fitts-Robert Fitzgerald translation without wounding it. The cast was competent at worst, and particularly fortunate in having Robert Goodier as Creon. And as should be, the hero was Oedipus. Canada's young (27) Christopher Plummer was a kingly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Kudos & Choler | 1/21/1957 | See Source »

...photograph of him has ever revealed his forehead!" The trail led to an elegant tonsorial emporium called Trumper's, which fortnightly dispatches a barber named Crisp to the palace to shear Charles (price of the haircut: 62?). What manner of brow lurks beneath the Prince's plunging forelock? "We never," announced Trumper's aloofly, "discuss the heir's hair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 22, 1956 | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

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