Word: sideburn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horse operators who write a script a day. and of the Method cowboys? Who knows what agonies the hairy-chested prima donnas of horse opera suffer as they give birth to their roles? The riding, shooting, even walking lessons they must take; the continual risk of shooting off a sideburn? But the western story is not merely a tale that is told by television, full of sound and fury, signifying little. It traces back to a fantastically colorful period of U.S. history, the era when there was "no law west of Kansas City, and west of Fort Scott...
Presley is certainly the most interesting performer in the field today. He has become popular more quickly than any other singer in recording history, last year selling thirteen million records. The growing sideburn cult and the wearing of "I Love Elvis" skirts are further indications of his adoption as an idol by the American adolescent sub-culture. The nature of the songs he records, mainly concerning romantic love, but often lack of romantic success, is an important factor contributing to his popularity, as is his emergence from the especially other-directed youth culture. The average teen-ager can vicariously share...
...offered an album of house-high snapshots of summer in Paris, corridas in Spain, religious festivals in India, a Wild West show in the hoariest Hollywood tradition; and at one point he is even permitted to witness a sight that the 19th century would cheerfully have given its right sideburn to see: Queen Victoria...