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Word: wig (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then he put on nylons, a dress and a stuffed bra, and finally the wig. He was a saucy hooker on his way to a Halloween party with his girlfriend--a hooker as well. They bounded down the stairs with all their playground energy and they encountered the infamous and repulsive Harvard apparition of drunken preppie-jocks. There they were, Little Joe and Rhonda, their slap-happy presence blazing through a clumsy mob of drunken, tuxedoed pretension...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...thought. This was the American conflict I had prayed someday to see: little guy in drag wheeling and kicking and crippling his clean-cut detractors, nylons ripping, wig flying off onto the ground, neck-ties shredded and doffed underfoot...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Of Wolves and Men | 8/17/1979 | See Source »

...Heinrich for Santa Fe's U.S. premiere of the shorter Lulu in 1963) captures the work's heartless, hypocritical milieu with a doorway here, a sofa or a plant there. All is gelid grays and greens except for the lurid red of Lulu's dress and wig. The stage is framed by two skeletal, metallic walls that recede almost to a vanishing point. In the final scene, when Lulu has ended up as a prostitute in a London attic, the walls suggest the street below, but they also suggest the desolate, fateful corridor down which Lulu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Lulu Arrives in Full Dress | 8/13/1979 | See Source »

...like the race is a parade and the runners are floats, only better," one runner said. Another hint for you prospectives: wear something catchy so the crowd will yell for you it can carry you through the race. Try, for example, a totem pole mask and a flowing blond wig, like one Japanese runner did this year...

Author: By Ann R. Scott, | Title: At 23 Miles the Crowd Won't Let You Stop | 4/18/1979 | See Source »

...playing when he was informed of the ban. Undaunted, Uston plans to file a complaint with the New Jersey Casino Control Commission. He also may continue to place a few chips on the sly: "Maybe I'll try my Dr. Wasserman disguise," he said, holding up a gray wig. "That's the one where I wear thick glasses and a Brooks Brothers suit with a Shriners pin on it." It fools everybody-until he starts raking in those chips again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Catch-21 | 2/12/1979 | See Source »

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