Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hairspray sat heavily in the air. A girl with brown lines painted on her face blew on a banana (tied on a string around her neck) and wistfully described the Chunky bar she had eaten for lunch. Most of the other women in the room stared into mirrors, ratting hair, applying pancake, and blowing up balloons in the empty stretches of time, all over a continual underbuzz of conversation. Three men on the far side of a partition went through a similar, if quieter process. One man paced between the two make-shift rooms, alternately blowing up a green balloon...
...women, a pride of preppies, and a torrent of ordinary white people either glued to the walls in sullen observation or flailing rhythmically in intoxicated syncopation. What they had left for our brooms at four a.m., besides the beer cans and cigarettes, we did not stoop to inquire: some hair, a shred or two of clothing, bits of fingernail, and even blood perhaps...
...school so I won't be a private schoolie like her." He pointed to the girl sitting next to him. She did not smile or seem insulted, but acknowledged that she went to Commonwealth and said that her name was Deborah Alkema. Like Hershey-Webb, she had long blond hair and wore jeans but unlike him she sported no Udall button...
...turned to my left and saw a young man with very long black hair and glazed, demonic eyes. He was snickering into his coffee, drops of which dribbled down his straggling beard. "Don't know! Don't know!" he mimicked nastily. He sniggered some more...
...Only the light tapping of fingers on the terminal keys and the hum of a fan can be heard. There are five people still working at midnight, three of them are undergrads. A student sits at the center table screwing up his face and dragging his hand through his hair repeatedly while figuring out a problem in his notebook. A woman jiggles her foot, causing her stool to squeak in rhythm...