Word: neat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Uncluttered Coif. The authentic Hamill is a short cut with a thick thatch of bangs that flops over the brow, meets the cheekbones and brushes the top of the ears. In the back, the hair is shaped into a sharp, neat triangle. If it looks at all familiar, hairdressers say, it is because the basic style has been around for several years. It was not until Hamill's Olympian efforts, however, that the wedge gained the edge as one of the headiest coiffures in town...
...cities. Stores and gas stations in these towns often stock the blank counter checks of state banks, and he would simply go in and collect a clutch of such paper. Then with a shoe-box-sized checkwriting machine, he would imprint the amount of the check in a neat, official-looking script. The amounts were always the same: a small odd-dollar figure that seemed like a reasonable weekly wage. For years it was $89.25; inflation recently obliged him to up it to $93.40. Beneath the signature line he rubberstamped such phony firm names as Baynard Heating & Cooling...
Employment Secretary Michael Foot is usually seen in public wearing the kind of clothes that produce sighs of despair along Savile Row. Last week, however, he had taken to wearing jackets and trousers that actually matched. Foreign Secretary James Callaghan, who is normally neat but not resplendent, took his front-bench seat in the House of Commons in an impeccable double-breasted suit and rich gray silk tie suitable for an audience with the Queen. There was good reason for the sartorial preening: after the second ballot of Labor Party members was counted, Callaghan and Foot were the remaining contenders...
...picture of the temper of the age in which they lived. If his interpretation of the reasons for their conversions is faulty, his book nonetheless presents a complete picture of the material facts. If Diggins fails, it is because he ignores his own evidence, and because he prefers a neat, all-encompassing solution to a more complex and perhaps less satisfying...
...HOURS BEFORE it had all been quite different--we were all neat and ready hosts, busying ourselves with speaker wires and refrigerators, worrying only that not enough people would come; some of us vowed noisily that we would not sleep alone that night. With two hours gone our first concern had been resolved. The entryway, the corridors, the dance floor were all packed with bodies. And the sexual tension that infiltrates all relations at Harvard threatened to break through to the surface. Ours, like all parties, had a grim line-up of men against the walls, openly inspecting every clothed...