Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most cases there is no law to justify Patriot attacks on Loyalist sympathizers. Often it is simply a matter of mob violence. When a crowd of Patriots seized a Massachusetts customs official named John Malcohn, a witness recalls: "Being disarmed of sword, cane, hat and wig, he was genteelly tarred and feathered [until] he had more the appearance of the devil than any human being." Malcohn survived that mauling ?only to be trapped by another mob three months later. This time "he was stript stark naked, one of the severest cold nights this winter, his body covered all over...
...trend seems even more advanced in the Colonies. The bag wig, with its black-silk sack to encase long braids, and the shorter bob wig, with neat rows of curls about the sides of the head, remain popular. But the wigless look, once associated with fashion iconoclasts like Benjamin Franklin, has already been adopted by no less a pacesetter than General Washington...
...would allegedly tear up the infield grass too much. The fight promoter then told the press that Steinbrenner wore a toupee. So the Yankee owner, concerned by this assault on his image, told the broadcaster on Sunday to pull his hair to "see if it is a purple wig." The Yankee-paid Messer dutifully announced that it "feels real to me," as the camera focused on the Yankee team taking the field...
...easy to see Adams as the American-style politician, brother under that wig to all the people now running up and down the country propelled by the curious belief that they are qualified to be President. But Adams is so human and unself-conscious in the anguish of frustration or the exhilaration of accomplishment that one often forgets to think of him as anything so grand as a leader, let alone as a founding father. That stress on the human basics is, of course, what all historical dramas should aim for and what so few of them actually achieve...
...monsters like the Hunchback of Notre Dame and the Phantom of the Opera. Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi, the superstars of horror in the '30s, won their fame as Frankenstein's monster and Count Dracula. King Kong was in effect Frankenstein's monster in a body wig...