Word: haircut
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...drinking at 15, the heroin addiction at 25, the two broken marriages, the ten years in hospitals, prisons and other institutions, the illness and waste and frequent despair. But they could see some of its ravages in Pepper's face, which was taut and sallow under his skullcap haircut, almost a death mask. And they could hear some of its pain in the soulful, impassioned solos that Pepper poured out when he picked up his alto...
...makeshift table in the middle of a temporary summer encampment. The field is studded with hundreds of pup tents. A senior talks about cadet life and the coming graduation. Another woman walks casually by in shorts and T shirt, her platinum hair neatly blown in a Dorothy Hamill haircut. The reporter is startled by her own instinctive response: How could this gorgeous girl be headed for an Army career? The thought is broken by an angry shout. Off to the side, male cadets are snidely calling to the women to come to formation. "Buzz off," comes the hot answer. "People...
...Hitlers flash briefly in various modes. Hitler as dictator, arm coiled back in statuesque salute; Hitler as paper-hanger--perhaps the most brilliant characterization--at work in overalls and roller, cursing the Jews and grumbling to himself about politics. Hitler as Chaplin, entertainer. Hitler's face is mocked: the haircut and moustache, his trademarks. Anyone can wear that face--like kindergarten games, drawing the hair over the forehead and the tufted whiskers above the lip on pictures of people in magazines; yes, anyone can look like Adolph Hitler--he is the common man playing out his most banal fantasies...
...Edward R. Murrow's World War II This ...Is London radio broadcasts and the hushed commentary from the 18th hole of the U.S. Open. Rather tried to blend in with the rebels, but Washington Post Television Critic Tom Shales, who dubbed him "Gunga Dan," observed: "A $50 haircut still looks like a $50 haircut-even when mussed up a little." Rather says wryly that his haircuts, in fact, cost just...
...sometimes paces TIME'S corridors for miles at a stretch. His explanation: "I hope that once my legs begin to move, the mind will follow." In his Business section days, Church followed a less conventional but surefire ritual to get his journalistic juices flowing: a pre-cover-story haircut. Alas, he laments, "I've had to abandon that practice since moving to Nation. Cover stories come more frequently here. I'd be the Yul Brynner of the section...