Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Inside, they found a gruesome clue to how Mengel may have crossed the border despite the bulletins for his arrest. A woman's scalp, presumably Capone's, was found in the car. They speculate that Mengel killed Capone and disguised himself as a woman, using her hair as a wig. At week's end police found Capone's body under a pile of stones in a wooded Catskills area...
...18th century would undoubtedly have found Handel the more admired, especially in England, where his German-accented ghost smothered native British music for more than a century. Bach was considered an outdated figure working in a dying contrapuntal medium of four-part harmony and abstruse fugues. "The old wig" his son Johann Christian is said to have called...
...thought or idea!" The triumph of Bach was that he did just that. His imposing musical structures touch the heart directly; Bach was, after all, a musician, not a philosopher or theologian. The sad part is that, even now, so many refuse to believe it, and see only the wig instead...
...delighted constituents. The following year Laurence Keitt of South Carolina called Galusha Grow of Pennsylvania a "puppy," and about 30 Congressmen, fortified by alcohol, began a free-for-all. In the excitement, John Potter of Wisconsin grabbed William Barksdale of Mississippi by the hair and pulled off his wig. "Hooray, boys!" Potter yelled. "I've got his scalp...
Wauck has also devised simple and effective sets which suggest the fragility of the superficial English society. Although most of the costumes are nattily effective, Gwendolyn's wig makes her look more like a Muppet then a bombshell, and Algernon's disguise as Jack's devilish brother Ernest looks more like a recent arrival from Palm Beach...