Word: forelocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under One Roof. With his monocle, his grey, lavender-tinted gloves, his white forelock setting off Italianate good looks, Whistler cultivated an exotic showmanship to mask self-doubts about his craft. The company he kept added a satanic touch by being mad, neurasthenic, and sexually deviate or profligate. The most colorful of the odd lot was Charles Augustus Howell. One of his exploits was to dig up the coffin of Elizabeth Rossetti by moonlight to retrieve a manuscript her grieving husband, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, had buried with the body. Howell housed his wife, a bevy of artistically inclined mistresses...
...famed uncle, Alfred Harmsworth, first and last Lord Northcliffe and turn-of-the-century founder of Britain's popular press. (Amalgamated was founded by Northcliffe, strayed to other hands after he died in 1922.) King (TIME, Dec. 5, 1955) has the level, grey-blue eyes and careless forelock of his uncle, whose picture hangs behind his blacktopped desk. But the two men are fundamentally different: the mercurial Northcliffe had a sure instinct for mesmerizing the masses; King is an intellectual with good background (Winchester, Oxford), who had to acquire the tricks of peddling blood, bosoms and ballyhoo. Says...
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...
...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...
...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...