Word: wig
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alternates appalling melodrama with grisly farce, is now a kind of rancidly self-communing Hamlet, now Venus in a gold wig. The more inhumanly homicidal his acts become, the more inherently suicidal is his mood. Boundless egotism shatters into nihilism, limitless freedom festers into self-imprisonment, until Caligula's assassination at the hands of conspirators is really a welcomed assignation with death...
...Okotie-Eboh, wearing a straw boater and a figured scarf that trailed 4 yds. behind him. A jovial group of eastern M.P.s drove up in a red Dodge convertible with a big stuffed toy tiger propped up on the back seat. Finally the Speaker, in his legislative robes and wig, strode majestically into the chamber, followed by the sergeant at arms bearing the golden mace of authority. "Extraordinary," said Macmillan with pleasure. "Nigeria has come to the threshold of independence without strife or bitterness between our two peoples...
Newsmen set up a melee, some 300 at full battle strength, around the Charrier apartment at 71 Avenue Paul-Doumer. Barred from audiences with the expectant mother, the reporters let their fancy roam. She was sneaking out of the back door daily in a wig (France-Dimanche). She was missing, perhaps "hiding at her grandmother's" (Paris-Presse). She was not missing (Paris-Jour...
...dressed herself with an airbrush, flaring her nostrils and moaning: "Geeve heem to me. I want heem at my feet." Brynner tries hard to keep up, but he lacks Gina's natural bounce as a performer - and besides, his most photogenic feature is concealed by a wig. But he does manage to draw the biggest laugh in the picture when he remarks, as the camera turns to see what he claims to see in Gina: "Behind those lovely eyes is the brain of a very clever woman." Suddenly, Last Summer (Horizon; Columbia), the end product of Producer...