Word: topknot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ruins of cities but only crude tombs crammed with weapons and splendid bronze harness equipage. Brundage's Indian Parvati is one of many he owns representing the Indian mountain goddess. (Some of the others, Brundage recalls, were held up as "pornographic" by U.S. customs.) Despite its elongated ears, topknot and neat mole like a third eye, Brundage's Buddha looks more classical than Oriental, shows that East and West can cooperate on the plane of art. When and if Brundage's conditions are met, San Francisco, the Gateway to the Orient, will take its place...
...When the standard was still a working field dog, the heavy mane around chest and neck protected heart and lungs while swimming in icy water. Shaved hindquarters aided swimming, while tufts of hair on legs and hips warmed the joints where blood runs close to the skin. The fancy topknot and powder-puff tail helped mark the animals when working in dense underbrush...
...accused him of bias and, as usual, had quoted out of context from newspaper clippings to prove the charge. This habit of Joe's reminded Ervin of the North Carolina preacher who about 75 years ago deplored the local women's custom of wearing their hair in topknots. One Sunday he preached a sermon on the text: "Top (K)Not Come Down." At the end an irate woman-with a topknot-protested that no such text could be found in the Bible. Whereupon the preacher opened the Scriptures to Matthew 24:17 and read: "Let him which...
Mephistopheles turned up in evening dress and top hat, instead of red tights. Marguerite did her hair in a high topknot instead of braids. Faust was a bumbling, bourgeois scholar working in a 19th century library (with high shelves and a stepladder) instead of a bare Gothic study. Otherwise, Gounod's Faust was Gounod's Faust, and an old-reliable choice for the Metropolitan Opera's opening night this week...
Bellwether's Topknot. For the short, chopped, overly sleek follower-or victim-of the short-haircut style, the new style was a shock. Even if she moved into a hothouse and buried herself in Vigoro, she couldn't grow a chignon of her own in time to be in style. By no coincidence, the hair stylists were ready with just what the lady roundheads needed: the artificial chignon...