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...hairspray keeps it off my face," Hicks, who is a Crimson editor, says of the big bangs that hang over her forehead. Hicks admits that her hair, with its teased bangs, is a vestige of the 80's in which she grew up. "My perverseness made me keep it going," she says. The 80's hair she has maintained nearly into the next millenium serves as a perpetual conversation piece. She has been told that she resembles anyone from the vampire Elvira to white-trash TV mom Peg Bundy to country-western singer Wynona Judd. Which would Hicks most like...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: WHAM! Make it Big | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...says "Bee Gees' Saturday Night Fever." Sherrod's hair--which she describes as "a cross between a collegiate Brooke Shields and Diana Ross"--definitely has some affinity with disco balls and hot pants. Through a "ritualistic getting-ready process," Sherrod "tames" her locks without the aid of gel or hairspray. She simply curls them repeatedly around bobby pins. "I realized how big my hair was when this two-year-old came up to me in the MAC and said, 'Wow, you have Big Hair!'" Sherrod says laughing. "I've definitely toned it down since I've been here...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: WHAM! Make it Big | 11/20/1997 | See Source »

...much as we love wearing eyeliner, hosiery and hairspray every once in a while, we can still be glad to get home and change into sweats...

Author: By Malka A. Older, | Title: Formal Functions | 3/15/1997 | See Source »

When counsel for the defense strode to the bar, we slowly became aware that we were inhaling hairspray--picture your stereotypical, sleezoid mob lawyer and you only begin to brush the surface. But his ridiculous appearance was nothing compared to his questions. First came: "How many of you watch 'E.R.?'" Several of us raised our hands proudly and several others followed sheepishly. "Um hmm" came his victorious reply as he made notes--he had caught us! After that, I just tuned out, not really wanting to deal with why the lawyer was asking me if I watched a popular medical...

Author: By Eric M. Nelson, | Title: In the Service Of Justice | 7/30/1996 | See Source »

When Tank Girl went Hollywood, some compromises were necessary. But director Rachel Talalay, who produced "Cry Baby" and "Hairspray" for darling weirdo John Waters, and sharpened her directorial talons with the "Nightmare on Elm Street" series, energetically faces the challenge of fleshing out "Tank Girl...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tank Girl Goes Hollywood | 4/6/1995 | See Source »

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