Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most Japanese, the yakuza are as instantly recognizable as soldiers in an enemy army. They wear their hair in crew cuts, parade about in flashy double-breasted suits, and affect the swaggering gait and tough-guy scowl of characters out of Guys and Dolls. They are the gangster minority in a society that enjoys the lowest crime rate of any industrialized nation in the world (violent crime actually decreased by one-third in Japan over the past 15 years). But unlike mobsters of the West, Japan's yakuza (good-for-nothings) are part of a chivalric tradition that dates...
...whom cataract removal is one of the most common operations, and one of the most ancient. Cataracts can, of course, form at any stage in life as a result of injury, inflammation or disease, and may even be present at birth. But they are, like wrinkles and gray hair, most commonly a natural byproduct of the aging process. The normal lens of the eye, located behind the iris, consists of clear protein encased in a capsule. Cataracts are changes in the molecular structure of the lens protein that cause it to lose its natural transparency and gradually become opaque...
...Corinthian helmets and hammered gold shields may intrigue some people more than reliefs of buxom goddesses, while others may be drawn to metal worked laurel wreaths used to honor the dead. And especially interesting is a silvered-iron mask of a man's face with rough cast-iron "hair" made in the first century A.D. More spontaneous in spirit is the bronze "Horseman" cavorting, only three inches high yet painstakingly, masterfully fashioned. Ostentation, heroism, eroticism and plain whimsy--all are here. Collections of such variety are rare indeed. Veritable treasures...
...they budge from their posts until death or ill health forced them out. In 17th century New England, 90% of the ministers and magistrates died in office. People showed their respect for age?and power ?by attempting to look older than they were. They powdered their hair and wore the severely cut clothing of the aged...
...Rasputin of fraud. The straggly hair that frames his craggy Florentine features is a fright wig of deceit. His flamingo legs carry him with awkward zest from sin to sin, while his tongue utters unguentary lies. Yet we are too conscious that he is a self-aware villain, scoring stunning acting points without carrying complete emotional conviction. And Stefan Gierasch's Orgon is not quite the ideal foil. He seems more like an exacerbated paterfamilias who wants Tartuffe to cow his recalcitrant brood rather than a breathless gull hopelessly infatuated by a bogus saint...