Word: wigged
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This is a hot week on the Harvard Lecture circuit--that is if you're interested in nuclear weapons, immigration or the Caribbean. Heading the ticket at the Forum at the Institute of Politics is Notre Dame President and general academic big-wig the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, speaking on "Science, Religion, and the Nuclear Menace" also at the K-School tonight in an adjoining room is Sen. Alan Simpson (R-Wyo.), one of the chief proponents of immigration reform in recent years, speaking on, you guessed it. "The Politics of Immigration Reform"....another big-shot coming to Harvard this week...
...first time I've been to Boston, and I'll be going back with hair," deadpanned the un-Bondingly balding Sean Connery, 53, as he donned a Wonder Woman wig given to him by Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theatricals. As the band struck up 007's theme, the club's "Man of the Year" got the traditional brass pot, as well as a dart board displaying a picture of Roger Moore, James Bond's alternate alter ego. Connery, however, would probably rather be throwing darts at his former financial adviser Kenneth Richards, who allegedly...
...development, sexual innuendo, and jokes about Harvard administrators in the audience--a spectacle immediately preceded by the opportunity to watch the HPT producers humiliate a smiling celebrity with Man of the Year honors. (Sean Connery didn't lose his cool when Gail Aidinoff crowned him with a curly black wig and two busty men kissed his cheeks, and he didn't crack up when co-producer Tom Strickler forgot what movies he had been in. The audience did, but that's the kind of thing people go to live presentations...
Even if Connery had minded being dressed up in a wig and insulted by a lot of preppies, he probably would have been grinning by then; revenge is sweet, but so is the Pudding show. The Secret Service man on his left cracked a smile...
...Calnek at the Captain. The years appear to have taught them some important skills how to project a falsetto voice past the first three rows, how to act during a kickline when you're stuck in a mermaid's tail, and how to keep a straight face when your wig flies off or when people scream "Oooh, Anthony, you author!" from the back of the theater...