Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have been interested in apologizing for George, not satirizing him. Still, much of Shampoo is good enough to make one regret its ultimate failure. The overpriced lassitude of Southern California living is well caught. Much of the dialogue has a keen edge ("I've been cutting too much hair lately," George rues at one point. "I'm losing all my concept"). The acting-especially Grant and Warden and Carrie Fisher, who appears as their nubile daughter-is well observed and sprightly. But Shampoo wants it both ways. It wants a few laughs off George and wants...
...just eloped with, the other not long after he'd been arrested in a 1967 Pentagon demonstration. Dan has a daughter who studies sociology in college, and another who does yoga every night before she goes to bed. Three other sons were kicked out of school for wearing their hair too long--Dan and his wife Margaret went to the ACLU and got it all fixed up. Margaret is getting a college degree. Walk into their house and The New York Times is on the table, near books by Eldridge Cleaver and Philip Roth, near Joan Baez records. The Sizemores...
Perhaps a greater political liability than her sex is Mrs. Thatcher's frosty, class-ridden public image. Her impeccably permed hair, unabashedly tweedy wardrobe, ever-present strand of pearls and garden-party hats draw parodists' attention more irresistibly than do similar badges of class in male M.P.s. Says one Conservative backbencher: "She's not only a woman. She's the wrong sort of woman. She might be acceptable in the suburbs and seaside resort areas. I cannot see her making much of an impact in the industrial northeast and Scotland. After...
Died. William D. Coolidge, 101, scientist and inventor; in Schenectady, N.Y. After joining General Electric's pioneering research labs in 1905, Coolidge discovered the method for drawing out of tungsten the hair-thin filaments used in incandescent light bulbs, and later perfected "the Coolidge tube," which remains the basis of modern X-ray units...
...Will all of you please sit down and be quiet," orders the Speaker of the Knesset, a short, round-faced man with a halo of gray, bushy hair adoring an otherwise bald head. "Have a little respect...