Word: mohawked
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...mohawk, tattoos and at least a dozen facial piercings give Miller the semblance of someone out of a biker movie. And the townspeople are apparently convinced that his mere presence puts their children in dire peril of turning into multiply-pierced punks. According to the Boston Phoenix, which reported the story, councillor Ayers believes Miller is a threat to local business, public health and the well being of the community--particularly children...
...took the steroids to rehabilitate his sore shoulders. The incident did not prevent the Seattle Seahawks from signing him to a 10-year, $11 million deal in 1987, then the richest rookie contract in history. Football's rebel enhanced his hip image by sporting a gold earring and blond Mohawk haircut. The athletic career of "the Boz," however, was as short-lived as it was meteoric. He retired at 25, sidelined by a shoulder injury. He segued into a quieter career, acting. In January he will star in Lawless, a new private-detective series set in South Beach. Says...
...Joseph Jacobs, a former director of the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine and a Yale-trained physician, feels the present distinction between alternative and conventional medicine will eventually be blurred. Jacobs, whose father was part Cherokee and mother a full-blooded Mohawk, appreciates how folk medicine can effectively combine with modern methods: his mother used herbal remedies but still took her children to the family doctor when necessary. "I'm neither a proponent nor a naysayer," he says, "but there's a whole gray zone there, and eventually it will just be a matter of different approaches...
Famous around school for her mohawk that was pink one day, orange the next, and for her sense of style, Amber "is funny, easy to get along with," says Clarissa Muzzy, still speaking of her friend in the present tense. "She listens to people and speaks her mind." She shone in English class, where, not incidentally, just before her death she had taken the role of Juliet in a class reading. In a two-page autobiography she wrote just a couple of weeks before she died, she said she wanted to be a marine biologist and that the thing...
DIED. JOSEPH MITCHELL, 87, writer and journalist; in New York City. In prose both vivid and wry, Mitchell, a New Yorker regular for most of his career, chronicled the city's more unconventional citizens, from workers at the Fulton Fish Market to the Mohawk Indians who toiled as high-altitude construction crews. In 1992 he capped his career with the best-selling Up in the Old Hotel, a compilation of four previous books, including the memorable McSorley's Wonderful Saloon, with its cockeyed gallery of barkeeps, preachers and gypsies...