Word: hairdoed
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...area's limited renown for an overabundance of gophers, whose destructive burrowing has always brought armed retaliation from local farmers, the museum used stuffed gophers to portray daily life in Torrington. "In 31 displays," according to the Associated Press, "54 gophers play hockey and Little League baseball, get a hairdo, preach a sermon, shoot pool in the local tavern...even rob a bank, with the teller told, 'Put your paws...
With his sweeping gull-wing hairdo, bombastic manner and pseudo-reasonable arguments to the world's press, Karadzic is a very recognizable figure. But who is he really? What made the physician turned politician into an enigmatic "ethnic cleanser"? In search of answers, TIME's correspondents spent several weeks interviewing Karadzic's friends and colleagues, tracing his origins and his life before infamy...
Sharpton owes his celebrity and influence to his willingness to do whatever it takes to be noticed by the media, from leading marches to being arrested to allowing himself to be photographed while his famous James Brown hairdo is being dried--in short, by being a rascal. If he were really as pious and responsible as he comes across in this book, no one would have paid any attention...
...racially charged controversies, White says Sharpton's account is self-servingly selective: "Sharpton owes his celebrity and influence to his willingness to do whatever it takes to be noticed by the media, from leading marches to being arrested to allowing himself to be photographed while his famous James Brown hairdo is being dried -- in short, by being a rascal. If he were really as pious and responsible as he comes across in this book, no one would have paid any attention...
...film (and in another enticing compilation, David Johnson's The Lavender Lens: 100 Years of Celluloid Queers, available in some video stores), we see gay characters haunting the corners of the film frame. From the early days of silent films (when Charlie Chaplin, in a barbershop, gives a cruel hairdo to an effeminate man) to the '90s (when gay or bisexual murderers lend lurid pizazz to The Silence of the Lambs and Basic Instinct), American films--like America itself--have typically treated gays as a joke or a curse...