Word: wigs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...occasion could be parents' night at a progressive school. Instead it is a rite of commercial nostalgia: Beehive, two hours of songs from girl singers and girl groups of the '60s. Six wailing women, six guys in the house band, the stage a huge steel blue jukebox. Plus 32 wigs, 25 costume changes and 15 cans of Aero Lak hair spray each week. "Our wig designer spends so much time hair spraying," says Larry Gallagher, 35, the show's creator and director, "he has to wear a surgical mask." But that is the only extravagance. Beehive offers no frills...
They include a wig curler, a clay tile marred by a cat's footprint, pieces of dishes and pipestems, meat bones and the wreckage of the original College building, which literally fell apart in the late 17th century...
...wears high silk stockings, brown-top riding boots, leather-lined, white wool breeches closed with gold buttons, a white waistcoat with a gold pocket watch, a crimson sash, a general's coat in scarlet wool with blue lapels and velvet cuffs studded with 20 14-karat buttons, a white wig and cocked bicorne hat, and a $15,000 18th century sword, inlaid with gold. "I come off as a totally arrogant, pompous ass," he says with pride...
...second President did not, of course, know about the Statue of Liberty, much less Hollywood mini-series or the value of a rating point. But David Wolper, the actual executive producer of Liberty Weekend, likes to cite Adams as a kind of 18th century mogul in a powdered wig. Were Wolper to stage a historical scroll of credits for his extravaganza honoring the Statue of Liberty's restoration, he might even see fit to list Adams as a creative consultant...
...wears a bright red wig, a tight, sequined bodice, and erotically gyrates behind glass bars. To the sweaty crowds of gawking dancers at a local nightclub, she is flashdance in a cage. To the person next to her in class, though, Susan L. Kelly '87 is just another Harvard student...