Word: haired
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hair-raising...
...brilliantly lit platform and altar looked like an ethereal spaceship radiating warmth. Many people back in the crowd had the strange experience of first listening to cheers for the Pope on their transistor radios and then hearing the actual sound following through the air like an echo. His white hair wet and plastered down John Paul led 300 priests, who waded through ankle-deep mud to hand out 60,000 Communion wafers that twelve nuns in Marlborough, Mass., had baked in a week of twelve-hour days starting each morning...
Last year, Section 80 had a name for its hope--Larry Bird, a 6-ft. 9-in. human caricature with a ready-made nickname (and a scraggly blond head of hair.) The Celtics had him hooked before he began his senior year at Indiana State; and the fans, between obscenities aimed at Wicks, talked of little else. While the Celtics had the most wretched year in their history, Bird dominated the Sporting News, leading his little-known Sycamores to the national college finals...
...awake most of the game, not dissolving into dreams of his college ref days until midway through the fourth quarter--when it's all wrapped up. The brothers from Roslindale only swear at the refs. And the kid with the ankle weights stops smiling and starts messing up his hair...
...flirts with the men at the bar. But she looks like a woman flirting with a man, for she is more a woman than she is a man. And a "woman" naturally tosses her head of hair, winks, and speaks in a low, sexy voice to a "man." Everything looks fine. Like adding two negative numbers and coming up with a positive one, it is confusing but it all makes sense...