Word: wigged
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While first-year students may wonder why that half-naked guy in a wig was singing a Judy Garland medley in the Union yesterday, more seasoned Harvardians know such an event merely marks the annual rites of final clubs initiation week...
...front of Widener Library, Michelle C. Sullivan '96 said she saw a man moon-walking while wearing a blond wig and one white glove...
...that very moment, in the very heart of downtown, the figure who would crucially assist in its undoing was adjusting his silver wig. Through most of the '60s, Andy Warhol had epitomized an arctic cool so detached it could give equal attention to soup cans and electric chairs. But Warhol's indifference was incomplete. There was never an artist more starstruck and money mad. Just three months after Woodstock, in November 1969, he published the first issue of Interview, his monthly that would lump together '40s screen goddesses, lustrous Europeans of vaguely aristocratic background and the very latest shoe designers...
Bernstein possessed a monstrous ego -- in his last concerts, all heaven gazing and fanny waggling, he parodied the suffering artist -- and a biographer could hardly ask for a better subject. The son of a wig manufacturer, Bernstein went to Harvard and made a dazzling debut with the New York Philharmonic at age 25; he conquered Broadway with West Side Story and then endured the musical catastrophes of Mass and 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue; he abandoned his long-suffering wife Felicia and spent his last years as the chain-smoking, emphysema-racked Yoda of the Dakota apartment building in New York City...
...with a seemingly endless enthusiasm, shows the effects of 14 years on the street. Her teeth are rotting and crooked, her face is filled with deep crevices and she has to steady herself in order to sit down or stand up. Her head is covered by a thick brown wig and a scarf all year round...