Word: redhead
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Enemies-and Godfrey made many, especially among former employees-often labeled the Old Redhead's country-boy manner a fraud: he was born in Manhattan to a mother who was a frustrated concert singer and an improvident father who was a self-styled British aristocrat. Young Arthur dropped out of high school to support the family at odd jobs. He started in radio almost by accident, as a banjo player sponsored by a birdseed company on a station in Baltimore...
...surface like a corpse in a reflecting pool. I Love L.A., which opens the record, is a mock-heroic epic of the sun-kissed glories of Southern California, mixing conventional imagery of Beach Boys serenades and fast rides in convertibles with darker asides about "a big nasty redhead" and a bum "down on his knees." Like the other keynote songs on the record-Christmas in Capetown, Miami-I Love L.A. turns the topography of tourist cliché into a nightmare landscape on which the sun never sets...
...capture a larger share of the commuter crowd if they were allowed to begin work at 5 p.m. The city government, which collects taxes on their trade, could also benefit. Moving up the starting time would free the prostitutes from having to hang around bars. Says Josephine, a vivacious redhead who drew up the petition: "If you do not drink, the personnel are not very happy, since their wages are based on turnover. Men want you to drink with them, and there is a great danger of becoming alcoholic...
NIXON TO TECHNICIAN: Hey, you're better looking than I am. Why don't you stay here? Blonds, they say, photograph better than brunettes. That true or-you're blond, aren't you? Redhead...
...your creamed face, gently, never pulling the skin, and iron the wrinkles away," explains a middle-aged instructor, demonstrating with a spoon. Thirty-five women and two men watch attentively during the 2½-hour class in a Manhattan high school. The students, who range from an attractive redhead in her 20s to an actor in his 50s, also learn that steeped camomile tea bags applied under the eyes prevent pouches, dry oatmeal helps preserve a youthful complexion, and a postage stamp stuck on the forehead is a good reminder not to frown. And those are only...