Word: wig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lacquered Wig...
...fall Sunday evening and only a few artists remain, straggling under spotlighted trees across the shaven lawns of Philip Johnson's 32-acre New Canaan precinct. All the millionaires and collectors have gone home. Andy Warhol, in black jacket and silver wig, looking like the Angel of Death quitting Jerusalem, left ten minutes ago. Robert Rauschenberg lingers on, and though a lady art critic is locked in Johnson's subterranean painting gallery with a young artist who is slapping her around for undetermined reasons, the place is quiet. Above the Morrises, Judds and Oldenbergs, lights still burn...
...announcement said Davis was wearing a dark jacket and skirt and a shorthaired wig. She was unarmed and offered no resistance...
...Whitner was the first to take the field, dressed in old tennis shoes, a wig and glasses. Her story was that her husband had abandoned her and her five children. The social worker asked only that she produce birth certificates for her children. She was unable to do so and still the authorities granted her food stamps worth $126 a month. "The social worker seemed so sorry for me, I had to fight off being put on total welfare," Mrs. Whitner recalls...
...just isn't right. Up on the stage of Los Angeles' the Now (formerly Cocoanut Grove), a nightclub thick with the ghosts of potted palms and a thousand big-name bands, Diana Ross makes her electric entrance, shimmering like a Broadway sign. She sports a frizzy Afro wig about the size of a boxwood hedge and a sequined sarong that looks as if it were cut from the Orion constellation. That's not the only star trip this lady is on. She seizes the microphone and leans into a song: Don't Rain on My Parade...