Word: sideburn
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...level of juicy soap opera - a must for any miniseries from I, Claudius to Washington: Behind Closed Doors. There are too many scenes of cooking, cleaning and dusting, not to mention list less chitchat in underlit rooms. ("Lord have mercy, I forgot to trim the President's other sideburn," says a White House barber in a typical example of Backstairs wit.) Only a sketchy attempt is made to re-create the nation's capital during the periods covered by the story. The one continuing dramatic conflict derives from the cardboard characterization of a mildly officious real-life housekeeper...
...that Richard Nixon necessarily dislikes sideburns, it's just that those who wear them rarely turn out to be his kind of people. Back when his staff first settled into the White House, the only man around sporting face feathers was former Kansas Congressman Bob Ellsworth, a presidential adviser who has since gone to Brussels as U.S. Ambassador to NATO. John Sears took Ellsworth's place as the sole representative of the sideburn set around the West Wing corridors, but by last fall he had lost out to Harry Dent as the White House political operative. The unsheared...
...well, sounding off. Buzzie Bavasi, the Dodgers' general manager, even gave you a plaque that was inscribed "To be seen-stand up. To be heard-speak up. To be appreciated-shut up." Now that you're 31 and there's a grey hair in your right sideburn and you're making $100,000 a year and you own four race horses, I guess you've probably calmed down quite...
When a Hollywood type says, "I see you've been to Sebring," he doesn't mean the sports-car races. He is talking about Jay Sebring, 28, the Alabama-born boy who has become dictator of the nape-line, tyrant of the sideburn, and keeper of the keys to baldpate for a list of notables that begins with Frank Sinatra and ends with Bobby Darin (they have a similar problem) and includes Milton Berle, Marlon Brando and Sammy Davis...
...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...