Word: wig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They even stopped for a while in a drive-in movie. Immediately after his release, Matthews, fearing reprisal by the S.L.A., did not tell the authorities that Patty had been in the truck. But two days after the Shootout, he confessed that Patty-wearing a short, dark, afro-style wig as a disguise-not only had been a member of the trio but had been remarkably willing to talk and chatted away like any 20-year-old girl on a date...
...half-naked woman in a red wig leaped wildly down the streets. Behind her marched a brass band with a mounted cannon; it fired candy at a crowd of more than 1 million people who lined Cologne's thoroughfares for the 151st annual carnival parade on the Monday before Lent. Parading or gawking, nearly everyone was in costume, and sidewalks were thronged with people dressed up as pirates, ducks and even gasoline pumps. One woman wore a full-length black body stocking-with two holes snipped out to expose her nipples. Several frowning, grumpy men sported greasepaint mustaches...
...most of the Rhineland's larger towns and cities, carnival began gaining momentum in early January, as an occasional woman ventured out wearing a red or green fright wig. Then, on the Thursday before Ash Wednesday, normal life came to a halt, as Rhinelanders abandoned themselves to what they called "die fallen Tage " (the crazy days...
...first the premise seems perilously cute. The time is "nippy fall, 1973," and the ladies of the "Long Island Masque and Wig Society" gather to run through a rehearsal of their latest production - a musical based on an 1845 play, Fashion; or Life in New York, by Anna Cora Mowatt, who was America's first woman playwright. So this is the 19th century Americana of Mrs. Mowatt's quaint, forgotten classic refracted through the 20th century Americana of suburban matrons in amateur theatricals. Except that the players in Manhattan's McAlpin Rooftop Theater are all totally professional...
...handicap. Director Gower Champion, busy with a new musical, declined to rehearse with Jane. Luckily, an interim replacement was at hand: Debbie Reynolds, 41, her predecessor as Irene. "Debbie helped me in every possible way," said a delighted Jane. "She kept people from confusing me, and even found a wig to match my hair." Gratitude aside, Powell intends to leave her own stamp on the role of the plucky piano tuner who makes it to Long Island's Gold Coast. For one thing, she added a song, I'm Always Chasing Rainbows. "My forte is singing," she declared...