Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Fashion-conscious Republicans know that it's better to look good than to feel good. So the folks at Clairol sponsored a "Freshen Up Lounge" where guests could see how they look in another hair color via color vision computer...
...collar crime, few businesses have been more riddled by fraud than banking. One of the latest lenders to surface as a possible wrongdoer is James Wasson, known to friends in Cushing, Okla. (pop. 7,720), as "the General." The title was more than a reflection of his close- cropped hair and commanding ways. Wasson, chairman of Cushing's First National Bank & Trust and a director of Citizens Bank in nearby Drumright (pop. 3,162), was a brigadier general in the Oklahoma National Guard...
...tries to piece together his heritage. "I guess it's like you come from another country. That's a country, isn't it? Mexico?" He asks in all seriousness, "Isn't it a country?" On television John David sees news reports of people with olive skin and thick black hair like his crawling through holes in a barbed-wire fence that separates Mexico from the U.S. Is this how his parents' families came to America? He does not know. "Freedom. I guess that's why they came," John David concludes. "I don't know if they had money...
...aquarium or the science center on city buses. Or because they share a passion for reading, they will walk to the community library and find more books. "Mona teaches me all this stuff," says Katie, who asks Mona to dress her up like Madonna, or mousse her hair to make her look like a punk rocker. "I mean, I probably am not going to have cigarettes when I grow up because Mona says she was really addicted to them and it was hard for her to quit," says Katie. "She'll beat me up if I ever smoke a cigarette...
Katie is an energetic, bubbly girl with sunny, shoulder-length blond hair and blue eyes that shine from behind jet-black eyelashes. Last year she wrote and illustrated a book (one copy in circulation so far) with the tongue- twisting title Xavier Xanax Excitedly Xeroxes X-Mas Xylophones and X-Rays in Xanadu. It is subtitled A World Alphabet Book, and all 26 letters receive similar treatment. In a blurb about the author, she writes, "Katie Davis lives in Seattle, Washington, in a house of five. And whenever she gets lonely she just goes off to play with her puppy...