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While rubber gloves and gooey cream may bring fellow dyers closer together, viewing a pink head of hair does not inspire quite the same enthusiasm in the average brown-haired Joe. Out of the corner of their eyes, our dyers often catch sight of open-mouthed gapes and wide-eyed stares. "No stranger ever says anything," Brown says. "They just stare." Workman adds that "little kids can't keep their eyes off my hair." Of course, these enraptured spectators can hardly be blamed for their violation of Ms. Vanderbilt's no-staring rule. The novelty of blue hair is justification...
...stalls of our fish markets-but who is to decide when doctors disagree? At all events, whether this production is the work of nature or art, it is decidedly the most stupendous curiosity ever submitted to the public for inspection. If it is artificial, the sense of sight and touch are useless, for art has rendered them totally ineffectual. If it is natural, then all concur in declaring...
...sight of dead children opens an abyss in the mind, of course. The wound may heal better if we not only sift through rubble and the mystery of evil, but also look out at the horizon. A helpful exercise is to study Oklahoma City and the 1990s through the prism of a new book called Walt Whitman's America (Knopf). Here, David S. Reynolds, professor of American Literature and American Studies at New York City's Baruch College, splendidly examines the culture that formed the greatest American poet and the greatest American poem, Leaves of Grass, which was first published...
Berkowitz has studied the "weapons effect" for more than 40 years. "There's no dispute," he says. "Even the sight of guns, which people think of as objects that can hurt others, can induce aggressive ideas. A weapon can function as a conditioned stimulus, eliciting both the thoughts and motor responses associated with...
...mere sight of armed Black men is enough to send most policemen scurrying for cover, and the Panthers experience the exhilaration of being able to stand up, for the first time, against the tyrants who have been ruling their lives...