Word: wig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...After checking an ominous 72-lb. suitcase onto a transatlantic airliner, the kindly old vicar toddles into the men's room at London Airport. But instead of washing his face, he takes it off. He squeegees out his contact eyeball covers, eases out his teeth, removes his grey wig, strips off his forehead and nose like so much tired bubble gum. And quicker than the audience can gasp "Kirk Douglas!", Kirk Douglas starts redisguising himself as a dapper diplomat. From here on, The List of Adrian Messenger becomes less a suspense movie than a guessing game: Who, among...
Lafayette. The main reason for seeing this Louis XVI version of the American Revolution is to watch what happens when the French try to give U.S. audiences a taste of their own widescreen, Technicolored medicine. Orson Welles, in a Father Knickerbocker suit and a frenzied-fright wig is hilarious as Benjamin Franklin in one of the film's few intentionally comic scenes...
Chica da Silva herself is next, in $2,500 worth of red-and-white silk petticoats topped with a skirt embroidered with white feathers, lace, seed pearls and semiprecious stones. She wears a 3-ft. white wig, à la Marie Antoinette, and her satin train is 12 ft. long. The floats roll by-a replica of Chica's sailing ship, a group of miners pouring money and gems into Dom João's open hands-plus a second flag-bearer team, more dancers, and the percussion band. Around the whole 2,300-member group is a thick...
...Boswell and reports that he has an antique gold pocket watch, he sits on a Queen Anne chair and writes with a quill pen, shaves with a straight razor and decorates his apartment with English candleholders, snuffers, and leather-bound first editions. "What I need is a wig and breeches," he adds ambitiously...
Whatever his age and no matter the degree of his adjustment facilities, the newly wigged man faces the problem of getting past that first full-headed day at home or office. Many new toupee owners plan their vacations around the wig's delivery date, return home to friends who usually know something is different but are often convinced it is a slight weight gain or that brilliant tan. One suburban New Yorker received his new hairpiece in the privacy of the fitting room, put it on as his wife walked in. She burst into laughter and kept right...