Word: hairs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...TRAGEDY by Rachel Ingalls (Simon & Schuster; $16.95). Four novellas by an author who already commands a formidable cult following. This time out, as before, she rubs against the grain of tired old plots and creates electrifying, hair-raising results...
...about a psychiatrist who testifies in death-penalty cases, the director stumbled across Adams' story. "I was interested enough that I wanted the details," Morris recalls. What he found in the prosecutor's files shocked him. The slain officer's partner, who testified that the killer had bushy hair like Adams', had at first told investigators that the car window "was too dirty to see through." Prosecutor Doug Mulder argued that the defense could not cross-examine a witness because she was traveling. In fact, she was staying at a Dallas hotel, possibly with the prosecutor's knowledge. She revealed...
...same time, the idea of "difference" between "my group" and "your group," the distinction between any arbitrary division of students or schools or people with different skin or hair or eyes makes it impossible to resolve racism. It is, as Dovidio says, one of the most natural things in the world. And that is why it must be addressed...
...life. He owns two racehorses but never bets on them because he doesn't gamble. Last year when his aged Audi expired, he agonized for weeks before acquiring a new Mercedes- Benz. The symbolism of so expensive a car bothers this man of independent means who cuts his own hair (badly) because "it's cheaper and faster." With a reporter he knows well, he can be drawn into conversation about his innermost thoughts. Still, he refuses to confess ownership of the Mercedes...
...after welfare checks arrive in her East Oakland, Calif., neighborhood, Minnie Thomas sees the ghosts of mothers shuffling in the winter chill. They are emaciated from crack-cocaine binges, and their hair is wrapped in rags to hide patches where clumps have fallen out. Thomas sees them glance at the children draped carelessly on their hips, then down at the sidewalk. "A woman's eyes are a window to her soul," she says. "Those eyes tell you clear as day that they've blown their check on crack...