Word: hairdoed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ancient Municipal Auditorium like chariots arriving for a Roman circus. Men in matching mink hats and coats and white knit jumpsuits vied for attention with glittering women in spangled gowns and beaded maxi coats. Diana Ross, looking supreme in a see-through blouse and a swept-wing hairdo she called "the liberated look," was upstaged by two chesty twins who bounced down the aisle in gold-sequined gowns cut to the navel. Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby provided some comic relief with a mock sparring match in the ring. The surprise ending came later, when 100 of the spectators, responding...
Other styles have been wispier (the Char), wilder (the Afro), more exaggerated (the Artichoke) and harder to maintain (the Poodle). But until now, women had not seriously considered a hairdo based on a multitude of lengths, from very short on top, to slightly longer along the sides, to a long, lank finale down the neck. They never considered it for good reason: it was sure to look abominable. But then so do midiskirts. And with hems gone to ungainly lengths, why not hair too? What better way to play both ends against the mini...
...enough for the diminutive figure in the white dress on the stage of Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium. Joyfully middleclass, fiftyish, a lady who likes fine clothes, Kathryn Kuhlman looks for all the world like dozens of the women in her audience. But hidden underneath the 1945 Shirley Temple hairdo is one of the most remarkable Christian charismatics in the U.S. She is, in fact, a veritable one-woman shrine of Lourdes. In each of her recent services-in Los Angeles, Toronto and her home base of Pittsburgh-miraculous cures seem to occur...
...some monstrous manager, or Jackie Susann. But those who have seen her on the concert or club stage-her natural habitat -realize that she is a diffident, dignified woman with a whimsical intelligence. She comes on with almost no preliminary patter, precious little makeup and a gown and a hairdo she does herself. There is none of the oppressive overproduction that is now the vogue in cabaret acts-the choreography down to the last twitch, the scripting of every gasp, the obtrusive gags. Any quips are her own and perhaps a little limp, but honest. During her recent stint...
...humor and Madison Avenue mythology explore hard-sell claims to product superiority. The agencies have created an unearthly band of mnemonic miracle-makers-a White Knight, a Green Phantom, Josephine the lady plumber, Mr. Clean the bacteriophobic eunuch, and the Man from Glad, who is gussied up in platinum hairdo and white trench coat. In one ad, a failing used-car salesman takes a dollop of Listerine mouthwash, and customers start buying without waiting for the sales pitch. In another commercial, a bespectacled, frumpish old maid uses Ice Blue Secret deodorant and is transformed into a glamorous beauty; presumably, even...