Word: shavings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle linebacker is a castoff from the Buffalo Bills, and the kickoff-return specialist is a refugee from Toronto in the Canadian League. The cornerback was dismissed as "a troublemaker" by the Washington Redskins; the flanker was cut by the New York Giants be cause he refused to shave off his long sideburns. The quarterback is a college dropout with one good leg and a con suming interest in "golf and girls, but mostly girls." Who are they? Who else...
...early stages, the stabs of pain last only a few seconds and may be hours apart. In more severe cases -and most victims get progressively worse-pains may recur several times a minute for hours or days, and leave a continuous "background" ache. During severe bouts, victims cannot shave, or even wash; they cannot brush their teeth or eat solid food...
...human beings at all," he protests to the young woman wiring his head to an electroencephalograph. "Do you mind?" she says. "I've got my work to do." This is clearly no place for a clear head. With his skull still gleaming from a preoperative shave, Spindrift swipes a wardrobe and steals back into the world...
Perhaps the most fascinating confrontation for this week's cover story was the meeting of correspondent and cover subject. "Why do you shave your head?" Tri Quang asked, staring at Frank McCulloch's gleaming pate. Frank said he looked worse with hair. Tri Quang marveled at Frank's close shave and inquired: "Doesn't it hurt you?" The monk drew out an electric razor and said with a smile: "I use this, but it doesn't give a very close shave." Then Tri Quang fixed McCulloch with a thoughtful stare and concluded the preliminaries with...
...waves come in all sizes. The tsunami is terrifying. Says a man who survived it: "He is convulsed. He goes purple. The vein in his forehead stands up three-eighths of an inch. And the hatred in his eyes!" He cuts up his victim "with a tongue you could shave with." He fires people left and right. Sometimes he even throws things. Sometimes people throw things back. Last December, when Merrick flew off the handle and fired Director Tony Page for not making cuts in Inadmissible Evidence, Actor Nicol Williamson threw a glass of beer and a sudsy right...