Word: mohawks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sporting his trademark mohawk, gold chains adorned with silverware, massive hoop earrings (three per ear) and five rings, Hollywood celebrity Mr. T made a colossal appearance at a Lampoon informational meeting last night...
...level regional malls with indoor waterfalls have replaced the towns as economic centers, is that they were wonderful, warm places where even the local drunk was part of the patchwork and where attention was paid. That's the genial view taken by novelist Richard Russo in The Risk Pool, Mohawk and his new book Nobody's Fool, three funny, loose-jointed yarns about backwater burgs in upstate New York. Doubtless it is contrary to recall the rest of the truth, which is that small towns were rigidly small-minded. That was the engine that drove American literature for several generations...
Jacobs has a healthy respect for grandmothers' folk remedies and for unconventional therapies in general. He comes by it naturally. For though he is a conventionally trained pediatrician, he is also the son of a part- Cherokee father and full-blooded Mohawk mother, who used to break out the herbs and tonics whenever he and his two brothers and sister had a fever or bellyache. "There would always be long-necked bottles filled with liquids sitting on a shelf in the closet, and a few bags of dried leaves -- turtle socks and other things -- that could be brewed into foul...
With an M.D. from Yale and an M.B.A. from Wharton, Jacobs is a bona fide member of the Establishment. At the same time, his heritage has given him an outsider's perspective. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Jacobs spent part of his youth on Mohawk reservations upstate and in Canada, where "I was criticized by relatives and friends for being too educated." But he also lived in Anglo communities in New York and New Jersey, where "I was often the darkest- skinned child in my class...
Izzy was sitting at the top of the T escalators, taking shelter from the rain. He was sporting a leather jacket covered with leopard-spotted fur that matched his dark spotted bleached-blond hair. A bright-red mohawk ran down the middle of his leopard hair. Greasy black jeans, patched many times over at the crotch completed his outfit...