Word: hairs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...roommates, I became somewhat insulated to the zealous anality that runs rampant in this community. Certainly my roommates have habits that annoy me, but living with them eases the frustration. Of course, it still drives me batty when they don't rinse my razor, and it's clogged with hair. Outside my room, however, I have less tolerance, less compassion...
Stardom proves no cinch for our heroine. The school authorities declare that Tracy's hairdo is a "hair-don't" and exile her to the special ed class. She and Link Larkin (Michael St. Gerard), her "common-law boyfriend," are ostracized from their keen teen group. Her best friend, Penny Pingleton (Leslie Ann Powers), is denounced as a "checkerboard chick" for dating a black student and is tortured by a loopy psychiatrist. And Amber's mom starts a catty rumor about Tracy: "For all we know, she could be high yellow...
...normal boys if you can find any in that dear decadent old country." She accuses her widowed mother living in Florida of financial imprudence and of ruining her skin in the sun: "I was shocked to see how brown you were. You looked dyed, frankly, and with your tinted hair the effect was honestly bizarre...
...most rules because he understands why they are made. "Too many bikers speeding always irritates me as a pedestrian," he says. But even he does not obey all the rules. "I never wear a helmet," says Henebry. "Part of the fun of riding is the wind blowing through your hair...
...campus is further divided between "Wannabees," who wear colored contact lenses and hair weaves and are supposedly trying to look like whites, and the so-called "Jigaboos" who are proud of their Blackness-they take pride in their heritage and the women let their hair grow naturally. Most of this conflict is acted out in a series of catfights between the Gamma Phi women, the Gamma Rays, led by the blond-haired, green-eyed Jane Toussaint (Tisha Campbell) and the Jigaboo women, led by Dap's girfriend Rachel Meadows (Kyme...