Word: lank
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...styles have been wispier (the Char), wilder (the Afro), more exaggerated (the Artichoke) and harder to maintain (the Poodle). But until now, women had not seriously considered a hairdo based on a multitude of lengths, from very short on top, to slightly longer along the sides, to a long, lank finale down the neck. They never considered it for good reason: it was sure to look abominable. But then so do midiskirts. And with hems gone to ungainly lengths, why not hair too? What better way to play both ends against the mini...
...quote Mario Puzo quoting Honoré de Balzac: "Behind every great fortune there is a crime." When Puzo gets around to updating Balzac's ever so slight overstatement, he has the youngest and smartest son of the oldest and smartest New York Mafia boss tell his lank Yankee bride: "In my history course at Dartmouth we did some background on all the Presidents and they had fathers and grandfathers who were lucky they didn't get hanged...
...first album on Bowen's Amos label, to be released this month, may be his greatest coup yet. After years of trying, he finally managed to team Bing Crosby with a group of lank-haired backup musicians in a collection of rock and folk hits-for examples, the Beatles' Hey Jude and Judy Collins' Both Sides Now. Meantime, Amos Productions continues to expand in other directions: independent producing, recording-studio engineering and shoe repair. Shoe repair? It seems that Bowen's father had a shop in Santa Barbara that was not doing well, so Bowen bought...
This is the magical mystery world of The Incredible String Band, which is al most as exotic as its name. The band consists of two lank-haired 25-year-old Scots. Robin Williamson and Mike Heron, each of whom seems to be half child, half wizard, and all musician...
...respect. When the hecklers booed, Wallace bowed and blew them kisses. "They got me a million votes," he said, adding that he needed the hecklers; silence caused him to flub his lines more than once. But late in the campaign he ran into a reverse form of hectoring. Lank-haired students wearing Wallace buttons cheered him wildly and chanted, "Kill for peace!" Such demonstrations left him dumfounded...