Word: wig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only 5 ft. 1½ in. tall but can belt the ball a mile." See Donna Caponi, "a young lady who plays a mean game of golf during the day and cuts an equally mean watusi at night." And see Pam Barnett, "a North Carolinian who throws her wig instead of breaking golf clubs when she gets angry...
...away are the supermarkets crowded with housewives in shorts and minis, the fried-chicken drive-ins and the wig-care salons. The staples of this new life are beer, sports and steak dinners. Power mowers whine all day Saturday, and on Sunday mornings the streets are full of prebreakfast car washers. Every suburb has its lawn bowls club, its public tennis courts and golf course, and many of the young elite are developing such affluent addictions as saunas, big-game fishing, ski weekends and even a little group...
...preparing himself, Ustinov boned up on the period and North. In preparing viewers to accept a unique approach to a potentially tedious subject, the producers show Ustinov getting his beard shaved and putting on a powdered wig and 18th century rig over his own prime ministerial paunch. Sevareid also read up on the subject for a month, but wore his usual mid-20th century suit for the filming, which took place in Wroxton Abbey, North's ancestral home, near Stratford-on-Avon...
...watched them so often, recalls Producer Frank McCarthy, "that they were completely worn out when he finally returned them." Scott also read 13 Patton biographies several times each, had his dentist mold him a set of caps to duplicate Patton's teeth, shaved his head and wore a wig of realistic white fuzz. He even insisted on having moles on his face identical to Patton's and filled in part of his nose to make it more like the general's. When she saw the film, Patton's daughter was astonished. "Once it gets rolling, a character is never...
...allows generals to call war "pacification," union leaders to describe strikes or slowdowns as "job actions," and politicians to applaud even moderately progressive programs as "revolutions." Semantic aphasia is also the near-pathological blitheness that permits three different advertisers in the same women's magazine to call a wig and two dress lines "liberated...