Word: maned
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story was a headshaker. Ruth Sherman, a white Brooklyn, N.Y., elementary school teacher, assigned her class a book called Nappy Hair, about a little girl's proud acceptance of her coily mane, in order to bolster the self-esteem of her black and Latino charges. But some parents, after seeing only a few photocopied pages, assumed the book was a racist put-down and essentially ran Sherman out of the school. Most New Yorkers were torn between amazement at the brouhaha and pity for the children, who have lost a good teacher. But for Trevelyn Jones, book-review editor...
...young Prince enlisted some chums to help him achieve the close-cropped hairstyle of his soccer hero Michael Owen. Alas, his classmates proved to be sub-par stylists, and a barber near Harry's boarding school was called upon to salvage the operation, relieving the Prince of his remaining mane. When the Mirror learned of the botched job, it ran a computer-generated picture of what Harry might look like hairless. Objecting to an "intrusion" into his sons' lives, Charles expressed his intention to appeal to the Press Complaints Commission...
After the story broke last week, Tripp mostly kept hidden from view. She telecommuted to the Pentagon from her home and, her face hidden behind glasses and a mane of frosted bangs, emerged only to say she wouldn't say more. Those who know her say she is too smart to shoot her mouth off to the press...
TOUPEES AWAY Hair-impaired guys, take heart. The FDA has okayed an extra-strength Rogaine, the hair-growth drug. If it works--and it doesn't always--it takes two months instead of four and grows 45% more mane...
...founders cult heroes and multimillionaires before age 30. Sports cars and magazine covers swiftly followed. Romero in particular wore the mantle of pop-culture godhood with aplomb. If the four founders were, as Wired magazine dubbed them last August, "The Egos at id," then Romero, with his lion's mane of black hair, his Tudor mansion, his Testarossa, BMW and Humvee, was the superego...