Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schedule also suits today's wayward servantless housewife, whose children return home from school at 4:30, thus destroying the old cinq a sept timetable. Another aid for delinquent dames: the wig.""It's a wonderful alibi," explained one Parisian housewife last week. "You tell your husband you must go to the hairdresser. Then, instead, you send your wig and stay home to receive your lover. You retrieve the wig later and appear properly coiffed for your husband. Neat." As for Novelist Sagan, who was in New York last week promoting her new book, the failure of Americans...
Neither as hot nor as heavy as a wig, which covers the entire head like a bathing cap, the fall has one great virtue: versatility. It can be worn long and straight, it can be braided, or it can be piled up into an elaborate coiffure for evening. In a matter of only minutes, a woman can magically transform her hairdo from short to long, curly to straight, and, because the fall blends in perfectly with her own hair, nobody need be the wiser...
...reserved in their welcome, and some shrug off the presence of newcomers with such noncommittal phrases as "they don't bother anybody." On all levels, there is occasional tension. A Negro girl in a Cincinnati suburb complained that white girls pulled her hair and asked: "Is that a wig?" When a Rochester Negro boy pulled off his shirt to play ball, a white classmate remarked on the fact that he was "black all over...
...Take wigs. The ordinary woman puts a wig on her head and that's that. Joan's wig gets run over by a car-and then the driver gives her $10 and his sympathy for having killed her dog. Or airplanes. "There's this guy standing next to me, and he's saying such things as 'If God wanted man to fly, he'd have given him wings.' And it's our pilot." Or trading stamps. It seems a girl friend saved 1,345 books of stamps toward an African safari. When...
...code words QWERT YUIOP-the top line on the typewriter. Best performance: Actor Taylor's. He plays a rather subtly caricatured Sean Corny who looks so much like the man who plays Bond that he even seems to be wearing the same Charles of the Ritz chest wig...