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With his wayward orange mane and glazed fish-green eyes. Gene Wilder conveys a beguiling look of incipient madness. In his films to date he has seemed always on the verge of lurching into some marvelously insane enterprise. For a time he worried about becoming typecast as Hollywood's favorite neurasthenic comedian. "There was always a reservoir of hysteria in me that I could call upon as an actor," says Wilder. "As I grew out of it, I became more and more dissatisfied with the parts I was playing. But Hollywood, of course, couldn't keep up with...
Woven Headaches. Another secure mane is produced by hair weaving, a process that costs between $150 and $400. Supplementary hair is woven onto a base of nylon thread and then crocheted with the client's remaining hair across the bald spot. Unfortunately, as the real hair grows the woven hair becomes loose and has to be tightened every four to six weeks at a cost of between $5 and $50 per treatment...
MOST Americans know the first Americans only by cliché. There is the 19th century image, caught in bronze and in lithograph, of the defeated warrior, head drooping forward so that his feathers nearly mingle with his pony's mane. The bow of his shoulders and the slump of his body evoke his loss of pride, of green and fertile lands, of earth's most favored continent. Then there is a recent image, often seen through air-conditioned automobile windows. Grinning shyly, the fat squaw hawks her woven baskets along the reservation highway, the dusty landscape littered with rusting cars, crumbling...
...cultural genocide," complained Yippie Leader Jerry Rubin, "an assault on the Yippie culture by the capitalist imperialist culture." Until last September, Rubin sported a magnificently wild mane that looked as if he had teased it with an Electrolux. But when he entered California's Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center to do 45 days on charges of being a public nuisance, the warders sheared his hair down to a respectably Middle American two inches...
...lion of prides. The mane is wayward and unhatted. The massive head and frame are by Hogarth, the voluminous suit by Khrushchev's tailor. An excess of ergs twitches his head and fingers; the English hair and teeth, the cockney-of-the-walk intonations announce his presence in the densest lobby crush. In the past two years, the New York Times's Clive Barnes has become a public character, the most theatrical and prolific critic since the days of Alexander Woollcott...