Word: maned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York model agencies; of cancer; in Greenwich, Conn. During her cover-girl days, Wilhelmina boasted that she was "one of the few high-fashion models built like a woman." So she was. With her 5 ft. 11 in., 38-24-36 frame, doe eyes, delicate cheekbones and mane of high-piled dark hair, she epitomized the classical, aristocratic look that she helped to make the style standard of the 1950s and '60s, along with Suzy Parker, Capucine and Veruschka. She never approved of the earthy, natural look that arrived in the 1970s with laid-back lovelies such as Lauren...
...sense of muscular tension and vigor less commanding. But it is still magnificent, even in comparison with the other sculptures at the show; among these is a bronze horse's head from the Florence Archaeological Museum which, with its flaring, taut musculature, rhythmic neck folds and elegantly articulated mane, is the very essence of forceful Hellenistic realism...
During that appearance, Anderson--silver mane bristling with sincerity--looked and sounded like the only moderate in the field. His defense of Republican economic policies but support for more liberal programs like the ERA and federally funded abortions appealed to the disillusioned liberal. "That was the start," New Hampshire aide Bill Touchstone says. "Since then, there have been people flooding...
...Guin's act is the quick, sharp description, the vivid detail that lights up its surroundings. The author catches one of Hugh's fellow checkers with a single sentence: "She had a lot of dark red hair, which she had recently got made into a fashionable mane of curls and tendrils that made her look twenty from behind and sixty face on." She gives Mountain Town a medieval European feel simply by looking down at one of its narrow lanes, "so steep that at intervals the street broke into steps, like a person breaking into giggles or hiccups...