Word: hairdos
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Below her high-piled, Gibson-girl hairdo, her smile was beatific as the flashbulbs flared like the big guns off Iwo on D-plus-one. For the moment, only the desperate waitresses in the main cabaret of Las Vegas' Tropicana Hotel seemed to realize that visiting Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor was not the star of the show. "What can I serve you in the way of triples?" they asked, as they tried to turn the customers' minds back to the main business of the house. "You'll need three drinks to use up your minimum...
...only to keep house, bear children and submit to her mother-in-law's tyranny, but also try desperately to hold her husband against the competition of "pillow" geishas, concubines and casual prostitutes. The tea ceremony, the fan, the kimono, flower arranging, the obi, the intricate hairdo, the beautifully mannered deference-all became subtle weapons of allurement. The kimono was cunningly cut to reveal the nape of the neck, a feature that to Japanese men seems more erotic than bosom or thigh...
...Chicago for a short story reading, button-eyed Writer Dorothy Parker, 65, astounded newsmen with a shimmering new hairdo that banished her longstanding trademark: languidly cascading dark bangs. Why so? "To tell the truth," confided Dorothy, "I had to give up bangs. Too dangerous. They caught fire when I lit a cigarette...
...bride wore lace and a Juliet cap of pearls; the groom wore a .45 automatic and a ponytail hairdo. Some 2,500 guests thronged the palm-thatched dance-hall restaurant of Santiago's suburban Rancho Club Motel. Thus one afternoon last week Raul Castro, 27, rebel commander in Oriente province, married Vilma Espin, 28, onetime chief of the rebels' Oriente underground in a civil ceremony performed by a Santiago rebel attorney...
...nonconformist Nisei. "Pat and I ran around with Caucasians," says the friend. The strained social relations resulted in many heartaches, and when the hurt was deep enough, Pat became deeply Japanese. Once when a boy she was fond of threw her over, Pat sliced off the ponytail hairdo that has since become her trademark. "I'm shorn of my pride anyway," she said, "so I cut my hair." Her parents would have recognized the Oriental sign of disgrace...