Word: stylist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...means black pride to me," says Clarence Dyas, a Los Angeles community relations supervisor. "Cats on the street used to look at a fellow strange if he braided his hair, but now everyone knows what it means." Other male braid buffs adopt the style for convenience. Explains Ray Allen, stylist at Soul Scissors, a Los Angeles black barbershop: "Braids are neater and a guy is more together in his appearance." He can also tuck his curls more easily into a football helmet: Star Split-End Morell George of Detroit's Central High School switched to braids after continuous combing...
Team captain Eugene White and sophomore Eric Read are the standouts on this year's epee squad. White is a stylist who has proven that he can win consistently...
Hall's characters are forgettable, but as a stylist the author seems to be working toward a new kind of thriller rhetoric. His best trick is the no-transition paragraph that picks up not where the action left off but two paragraphs of conventional narration later. The reader has to guess what happened in between, and the overall effect makes him feel that he is the one out there in the desert with the vultures...
MARIA MULDAUR. Muldaur has emerged from a career of background harmonizing, singing for Jim Kweskin, and making only promising records with her husband Geoff to become a highly original solo interpreter and exciting stylist in her own right. Passim should provide the perfect arena for her talents; when Passim was the Club 47, Muldaur was reportedly responsible for some of its finest moments...
China Machado, the stylist, dollies in to arrange the folds of a scarf with the care of Michelangelo planning the folds on the Pietá. Sitting immobile for hours at a time has its problems: "My muscles begin to shake after a while. Sometimes the tears start to flow from pain, and we have to airbrush them out of the picture." Such discomfort, of course, cannot be allowed into the photographs...