Word: wig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prance the stage in some of the longest, slowest processionals since Catherine de Medici introduced ballet spectacle to the court of France in the late 16th century. Nymphs, whores and clowns flutter merrily about. Morality figures of death and madness strut menacingly. The serpent, dressed in a red flapperesque wig and pelvis-pinching tights, snakes sneakily around her victims. Nijinsky ascends the cross for several minutes of agony, then descends to triumph over Diaghilev in the name of love and artistic freedom...
...pieces in the show the term "realism" cannot express the painstaking accuracy involved in making the figures exactly like human beings. Not only does the "Woman Cleaning the Rug" by Duane Hanson have real spectacles on her nose, a real Dynel wig on her head, and a real bandaid on her shin, but her vacuum cleaner is plugged into a socket in the wall. The very technological feat of creating the illusion of a woman's flesh out of synthetic polyester and fiberglass becomes the most significant thing about the sculpture. The subject matter is almost secondary. One becomes obsessed...
...year by acting as a decoy prostitute for her boy friend's gang. After the first mugging, she carefully put her share of the booty-970-into a locked chest in her bedroom at home, next to her old dolls and the gear of her new trade: a wig, tennis shoes and a half-face mask. Then, as she told TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week, she "just got fed up following the boys." So she branched out on her own, leading three girl friends in the mugging of an old woman, which she cheerfully calls "granny bashing...
Died. Edmond Ansley, 84, the 50-in. midget who was the model for the cartoon character Buster Brown in 1 9 1 0 and who for the next 27 years traveled across the U.S. with a blond wig, knickers and a Boston terrier named Tige to promote the children's footwear of the Brown Shoe Co.; of an apparent heart attack; in Gainesville, Texas...
...Gallo camp in Brooklyn. In the interim the Colombos moved to a rear table and were replaced at the bar by four wholesale kosher-meat dealers out for a night on the town. A half-hour later, a Gallo trigger man known as "The Syrian" donned a shoulderlength black wig, entered the restaurant, ordered a Scotch and water, and began sizing up what he took to be his victims...