Word: unkempt
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Peter Ginna's appearance as an eccentric, macaroon-eating detective Julian Christoforou in Eye immediately commands attention. He slinks around the stage, shoes untied, hair greasy and unkempt, slurping yogurt. His initial energy never wanes, and his loony, yet contemplative characterization provides the best humor of the evening...
...universe ?and of himself. He fathered relativity and heralded the atomic age with his famed formula E=mc2. Yet his formidable reputation never undermined his simple humanity. He spoke out courageously against social injustice. In his later years, dressed in baggy clothes, his white hair as unkempt as a sheep dog's, he helped yourgsters with their geometry homework, still loved to sail, play Mozart melodies on the violin and scribble reams of doggerel. Though he has been dead nearly a quarter of a century, there are few people who do not recognize the face or name of Albert...
...communal group's lifestyle soon brought objections from neighbors. Members refuse to bathe with soap, and many wear their hair in unkempt dreadlocks. They "recycle" their refuse by dumping it in the yard, a practice that attracts hordes of rats. MOVE mothers give birth naturally, biting off their babies' umbilical cords. Their children do not attend school and usually go naked-even in winter. Members also reject burial; at one point they showed reporters the shriveled corpse of a month-old baby who had died from undisclosed causes...
According to an FBI internal memo released last week, Presley showed up at FBI headquarters when he visited Washington in 1970 and offered his services. Elvis, according to Research Chief M.A. Jones, who spoke with him, was peeved at the Beatles for their "filthy, unkempt appearance and suggestive music." Jones further quoted him as saying that "the Smothers Brothers, Jane Fonda and other persons in the entertainment industry of their ilk have a lot to answer for in the hereafter for the way they have poisoned young minds by disparaging the United States in public statements and unsavory activities...
...Bashford, San Francisco's priciest men's store, ran full-page ads featuring a man whose linen suit looked as if it had escaped from a disaster movie, it was a sellout. Italy's Giorgio Armani is generally acknowledged to be the greatest evangelist of male unkempt. A disarming, blue-eyed Milanese, Armani, 43, is a canny tailor who knows precisely what each fabric can do and undo. Though Italians call his style Il Look Inglese-to which stiff upper-collared Englishmen might well object-Armani has managed to steer the national aspiration to la bella figura...