Word: messier
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Actress Judy Carne, who turned up with the cut on Laugh-In, was told, "It's untidy." "That's it. You've got it," she replied. "The messier it is, the better," says Stylist Gene Shacove. "If an ape cut it himself, it would probably be a bigger hit." Manhattan's Paul McGregor, longtime advocate of the cut, gave it its first public exposure a year and a half ago atop the head of Actress Jane Fonda. McGregor, who sees the style as not only ageless but sexless, has monkeyed with Warren Beatty, Geraldine Chaplin, Donald...
...Scott Jacobs wrote a piece on the indignant reaction of the cheerleaders, and Southwick speculated on the chances of the NCAA rules committee allowing Yale to play alumni, including Braian Dowling, in place of its syphilitic varsity. Somehow, the disease changed to gonorrhea, which is after all, a little messier and a lot more disgusting...
Commonplace Killings. Unsatisfactory and untidy as that ending was, it stemmed from a growing conviction in Washington that the impending courts-martial of the Berets would have been even messier. Two of the nation's most publicized lawyers, Edward Bennett Williams and F. Lee Bailey, had been hired by the defendants and were poised to portray their clients as victims of nasty rivalries among U.S. intelligence-gathering agencies. They would have blistered the U.S. commander in Viet Nam, General Creighton Abrams, for initiating the charges and would have exposed jealousies between the regular Army and the elite Special Forces...
From their descriptions, it was obvious that the Apollo crew had diligently learned its lessons. The astronauts casually called out names of lunar craters and other landmarks as if they were old friends. The Sea of Fertility. Messier. Pickering. The Pyrenees Mountains. The craters of Colombo and Gutenberg. The long parallel cracks or faults of Gaudibert...
...make matters even messier, astronomers have now discovered a new quasar that is apparently farther, brighter and more enigmatic than any other yet found. Designated 0237-23, it was first detected and pinpointed by Astronomer John Bolton with the 210-ft. radio telescope at the Parkes Observatory in Australia. Using coordinates supplied by Bolton, California Astronomers Halton Arp and Thomas D. Kinman zeroed in on the quasar with the 200-in. optical telescope at Mount Palomar and the 120-in. Lick Observatory telescope...