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Word: wig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...month), but not so mellow as to rewrite her best-known play. When The Women is revived on Broadway this week, after two weeks of tryouts, the changes will be in the cast: a blonde seductress will replace Lainie Kazan, the temperamental brunette who refused to wear a blonde wig for the role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Women's Woman | 4/30/1973 | See Source »

...Opera, was making his debut in the New York City Opera's new production of Hans Werner Henze's The Young Lord. In his new role, Sir Rudolf was an absolute lamb: early to rehearsals, a dear at taking direction and patience itself while his flowing gray wig was being glued on his bald head. But all the divas he has put down must have loved Critic Harold Schonberg's New York Times review: "In future performances Sir Rudolf will doubtless know what to do with his hands and feet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Apr. 9, 1973 | 4/9/1973 | See Source »

...movie opens with Beatrice's grimace at a department store mirror while she dons a platinum curled wig. She makes a garish picture--an aging belle whose talent for mimicry has twisted into selfmockery. She feeds on pipe dreams to bolster her comedy, but even these pile up to taunt her selfdeception...

Author: By Emily Fisher, | Title: All That Glitters Is Not Marigolds | 2/9/1973 | See Source »

Haled into court on charges of "exhibiting indecent images in public," Polnareff appeared fully clothed-wearing tight, cream satin pants with a matching bolero, a curly wig and his inevitable sunglasses. His exchanges with Judge Emile Taillandier produced some of the liveliest courtroom dialogue since Irma La Douce. Samples...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: L'Affaire Derri | 1/1/1973 | See Source »

...Unlike their colleagues of the written word, cartoonists found the campaign an easy mark. The Denver Post's Oliphant was consistently on target, and that target was Nixon?Nixon grimly outfitting Agnew with a fright wig and electric guitar for the benefit of the 18-year-old voters, Nixon attacked by creeping "Watergate bugs." Don Hesse of the St. Louis Globe-Democrat reserved much of his fire for McGovern's foot-in-mouth campaign statements and woeful showing in the polls; a characteristic Hesse offering shows McGovern, in tattered football gear, telling a dispirited huddle, "Cheer up?...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign That Was: Some Bright Spots | 11/20/1972 | See Source »

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