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...saying that I understand it. However, these things are all over the place, and they're spreading at a healthy clip. Remember the movie "Gremlins?" Despite the conspicuous fact that other headgear is warmer and looks less like a dead pet, the Hairy Russian Intellectual Hat has spread faster than an e-mail chain letter...

Author: By Maika R. Pollack, | Title: Big Hairy Russian Intellectual Hats | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...initial appeal of The Hat may have been the simple effect that fur produces on the head of a bald man: a shameless and warm toupee. The distinction between balding, foreign men and our top professors being pretty sketchy, The Hat caught on quickly as a sign of the oldest guard of the Intellectual Elite (It's rumored that all eight University professors received new Hats upon their appointment, and precocious Professor of Mathematics Noam Elkies owned several at the tender age of eight). This theory is feasible only at Harvard, where fashion trends sparked by old intellectual men could...

Author: By Maika R. Pollack, | Title: Big Hairy Russian Intellectual Hats | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

Apart from the Russian Army, the Hat is available in a variety of places ranging from cavernous bookstores, precious Newbury boutiques, yard sales and the back room of certain coffee houses. I'm sure that Urban Outfitters, that chain of trendy individuality, will soon have an order in stock, if they don't already...

Author: By Maika R. Pollack, | Title: Big Hairy Russian Intellectual Hats | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

Retailers have now gone over the edge making sure we can all find The Hat in our size: I've seen toddlers bundled in snow suits capped with mini-Russian Intellectual Hats, looking like they're sporting small beagles on their heads...

Author: By Maika R. Pollack, | Title: Big Hairy Russian Intellectual Hats | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

...political note: Granola types, who wouldn't sport a fur coat if their tempeh and grain medley depended on it, regularly hit the scene in these conspicuous coils of Real Fur. As Alexander Barylski '96, proud Hat wearer for four years, commented, "No one's spray-painted these Hats, yet." These Hats can do no wrong...

Author: By Maika R. Pollack, | Title: Big Hairy Russian Intellectual Hats | 2/16/1995 | See Source »

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