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...statute of the British naval regulations of 1797 prescribed that no officer of Her Majesty's armada could wear a beard. It is a shock, indeed, to view Peter Ustinov with a clean-shaven countenance. Yet Mr. Ustinov's eventual victory in his battle against eighteenth century decorum must indicate the decline of Britain and her navy; the multi-talented Ustinov--producer, director, co-writer, and star of Billy Budd--completely dominates this ambitious production of Melville's novel...
...Greening. Students endure hazing so they can get into the Student Corps, social clubs that count roughly one-fourth of Holland's 45,000 college students as their members. For two weeks each fall, freshmen, called "foetuses," go about with shaven heads, submitting to insults and even beatings from upperclassmen. Since they are considered "greenhorns," the process is known as "ontgroening" (de-greening). Girls go through a mild form of hazing, though when Princess Beatrix was at Leiden University, authorities considered even that too rough and ordered special treatment for her. But the boys get the works...
...Grace. One of his decrees was that all Herald troops were to be clean-shaven and shorthaired. During a stay abroad, he received information from one of the White Mice that a long-haired music critic had just been put on the payroll. TELL MELTZER TO CUT HIS HAIR, he cabled back. Meltzer refused. Bennett meted out his punishment by cable: SEND MELTZER...
Along Lee Avenue, sign after sign in Hebrew announces the purity of the kosher meats or the freedom from animal fats of baked goods. On the sidewalks, young boys with shaven heads and long, curling sideburns are watched by women in high-necked, long-sleeved dresses and old men in untrimmed grey beards, broad-brimmed felt hats and ankle-length black coats. Now this colorful way of life is coming to an end, partly because of a disconcerting complication. New 22-story apartment buildings are replacing many of the tenements of Williamsburg, but the Hasidim cannot live in them: they...
...province with a fortune in gold that is hidden inside several hundred hollow branches. This gold is all that remains of the wealth of the Akizukis, a noble house recently deposed in civil war. The Akizuki princess (dressed in tight blouse and bulky shorts) and her loyal general (half-shaven but infinitely courageous) travel with the gold-filled faggots. Two peasant refugees and a woman saved from prostitution do the manual labor...