Word: wig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, Julie's attraction is more than reciprocated, though as long as Michael has his wig and makeup on, his is the love that dares not speak its name. It is his conflict, between the need to keep his identity secret and his compulsion to confess it and try to claim his true love, that moves the comedy to the knockabout level...
...those who feel that a day without sunshine is like a day without Mozart, there are the familiar images passed down and touched up for 200 years. "A little man with his wig and sword" is Goethe's description of the child performing for Europe's nobility and dazzling Kapellmeister with feats of improvisation and phonographic memory. There is the prodigy as meal ticket: Wolfgang and his gifted sister Nannerl carted from court to court by Leopold for a few gulden, ducats, florins, pocket watches and snuffboxes. If a theater poster announced an eight-year old Wunderkind even...
...largest in the country, is said to have paid Fagan's wife, Christine for the rights to her story and proceeded to tantalize readers with tacky comments: the Queen was wearing a shortie nightgown at the time; she had the figure of a 16-year-old; her wig, so Fagan purportedly told Christine, was sitting in her room. Other papers made much of the fact that Elizabeth and Prince Philip obviously have separate bedrooms. Pondered the Daily Mirror too ponderously: "Separate beds. How important is it to cuddle up together...
Another part of her appeal is pure show biz. As a star platform personality, Jungreis comes on in flashy outfits of white, black or electric purple, wearing spike heels and heavy eye makeup. All that plus a slight Hungarian accent and blond wig make her look and sound a bit like Zsa-Zsa Gabor. Staid rabbis are sometimes scandalized by her delivery, which ranges from a concerned whine to a dramatic whisper. But lay listeners are held spellbound by her blend of polemics and pizazz. Sometimes they weep openly as she speaks about the possible fate of Israel...
...operated a disarmingly straightforward scheme. First, he dreamed up a borrower and drew up the appropriate document in that name. Next he stamped the note ACCEPTED, and then offered it for sale in New York. Finally, the money from the sale was deposited in a private checking account that Wig gins had set up under a phony name...