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...tuxedo is beautiful," someone whispers. "And his hairstyle..." Members of the cast hand him a blond wig and a pink negligee, which he poses with awkwardly for a minute, looking perplexed. Finally he speaks: "My dad was very proud. He said, Harvard, that's the most illustrious, the most prestigious school in the country." Someone shouts, "It's all bullshit...

Author: By Scott A. Rosenberg, | Title: The Roar of the Greasepaint | 2/19/1981 | See Source »

...marriage or death, whichever comes first." Like Ann, who pioneered the use of expert advice in her column, Sister Abby refers many readers to psychologists, clerics and other specialized counselors-but never before investigating the service. A former World War II Red Cross aide, she has donned a blond wig to visit, incognito, a Gamblers Anonymous meeting in New Jersey, a suicide prevention center in Los Angeles, even a Masters and Johnson clinic in St. Louis. Says she: "I learn more from my mail than a gerontologist can in an average practice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Advice for the Lonely Hearts | 1/19/1981 | See Source »

...Manpower, Planning and Development Edgar Tekere, 43, and seven youthful bodyguards, charged with murdering a white farm manager four months ago. Flanked by his lawyer in a Salisbury courtroom last week, Tekere glowered menacingly as white South African-born Justice John Pittman, wearing the traditional red robe and curly wig, began reading the verdict. Pittman's dry voice droned on for 50 minutes, but his final words rang out like a shot: "All the accused are acquitted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ZIMBABWE: Ironic Justice | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

...destroy a wooden sculpture by Ernst with a hatchet provided for the purpose and to contemplate, among other entries, Baargeld's "Fluidaskeptrik," an aquarium containing red water, simulating blood, an alarm clock, a wooden arm reaching out of the water on the surface of which floated a women's wig...

Author: By Lois E. Nesbitt, | Title: Dadadadadadadadadadadadadada | 12/8/1980 | See Source »

...this. Glen Echo is an amusement park that went out of business in 1968. Now arts groups meet there near abandoned carrousel horses and a cracked, empty pool. Downtown, the old Woodward & Lothrop department store looks as handsome as ever, with its polished wood everywhere. Streets are lined with wig emporiums and phrenologists. The National Portrait Gallery is located in the old U.S. Patent Office that doubled as a makeshift hospital during the Civil War. Walt Whitman wrote of soldiers dying there between the rows of inventions. The Phillips Collection at 21st and Q is still a great place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Place to Hate and Love | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

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