Word: hairdo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sunset-pink gown was smashing all right, but it was Princess Margaret's new hairdo that set the crowd at London's glittering Dockland Settlements Ball atwitter. Obviously inspired by some Grecian yearn, it was swept abruptly back from her forehead and fixed with jewel-studded pins above and behind her ears. The effect was a kind of outsized ponytail with the ends curled back along Meg's shapely neck. "It can't be all her," whispered one Lady, smelling a royal rat. "Of course it's not," said another. Only her hairdresser knew...
...majority, British-appointed Governor Sir Evelyn Hone refused to form a government, preferring to wait until a special election for the empty seats is held Dec. 10. But in the long run, the big winner will probably be Kaunda, a teetotaling advocate of Gandhian nonviolence whose straight-up hairdo gives him the look of a man permanently frightened by a ghost. With his huge plurality, he can legitimately claim a mandate for a new constitution guaranteeing more power to the blacks, and he aims to do just that. "Our first goal," he says, "is stable government. Then we can press...
...proletarian and pretty. The Sunday supplement of Izvestia argued: "You can't deny a woman's striving to be attractive. What woman's heart does not miss a beat at the words: 'Now that dress suits you' or 'What a splendid hairdo.' This is not just a caprice, but a demand of the times and a reflection of the increased cultural level. We must not consider these 'petty matters' unworthy of attention." Trouble was, added Izvestia pleadingly, that economic planners who are responsible for supplying the "pretty clothes, nice makeup...
Even as a Democrat, I cannot help recognizing Dirksen as a great man. I even like his eccentric hairdo...
They recall that in his prepolitical days, he had a consuming ambition to become an actor - and they argue that he has succeeded superbly. They delight in his adventurous hairdo : "Whatever you want to say about him, he doesn't use that greasy kid stuff." And they point to a political trail that has more twists than that of a palsied sidewinder: the Chicago Sun-Times (whose political creature Dirksen is often, and inaccurately, accused of being) once reported that in his 16 years in the House of Representatives, Dirksen changed his mind 62 times on foreign policy matters...