Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...loving Kennedy would push him overboard. The children organized rattlesnake hunts, and good old Bobby insisted on negotiating most of the run alone in a kayak. But Expedition Leader Don Hatch insisted it was a piece of cake. "The biggest problem," he said, "was keeping Ethel's wig box right side up through the rapids...
These two novellas illustrate how evanescent a Calisher point can be when it is pursued to its core. On the New York-to-Boston train, in The Railway Police, is a woman social worker who wears wigs to hide a hereditary baldness. Seeing a ticketless passenger led away by the railway cops, the social worker abruptly decides to follow his example -to be a vagrant; that is, to exercise "the right to be out of the organized world." Girdle, rings, bank account, wig -everything is abandoned for the park-bench life...
...compared with $110 to $300 for Italian hair. Then last November, alarmed at the growing number of Red heads in the U.S., the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control banned all imports containing Asian hair. Last month the U.S. Government sharpened the ban by prohibiting all wig imports from five European countries, including Italy, unless the wigs were accompanied by certificates of origin...
Since Italy has been exporting 90% of its wigs to the U.S. and relying on China for more than 80% of its hair, the ban has all but ruined the Italian wig industry, forced 80% of the companies that jumped on the wig wagon to go out of business. Even Gaetano Palombi, who earned the sobriquet King of Roman Wigmakers for his coiffures in such hairy Italianate screen extravaganzas as Ben-Hur and Cleopatra, has had to cut back his staff from 45 to twelve...
...SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11:15 p.m.). The Sound and the Fury, in which Yul Brynner, in a wavy wig, is about as unrecognizable as the Faulkner novel on which the film is based. Margaret Leighton, however, wearing a Southern accent, can't (and shouldn't) be missed...