Word: haired
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...longer did Wilder risk racial polarization by talking about putting prejudice to the test. Now 58, his hair silver, his manner reassuring and his smile infectious, Wilder had grown far too adroit to speak of racial issues in anything other than soft, almost dulcet, tones. Throughout the 1980s, Wilder had consciously shaped his persona to make his blackness and ground-breaking achievements seem almost boring and quietly inevitable. He did not disown his racial identity, tossing off laugh lines like, "How can I not think of myself as a black man? I shave." His style, rather, was to envelop...
Saul is vividly recollected from the old days: Jewish, with springy red hair and a purplish birthmark covering the right half of his face. He is distinguished also by his growing interest in the tribes of Amazonia and their right to survive. The narrator recalls provoking his friend on this subject: "Should 16 million Peruvians renounce the natural resources of three- quarters of their national territory so that 70 or 80 thousand Indians could quietly go on shooting at each other with bows and arrows, shrinking heads and worshipping boa constrictors?" Saul's response is skimpy on particulars but firm...
Harvey Milk students want to be accepted, especially the 15-year-old with cornrowed red hair, a fashionable rhinestone nose stud and doelike eyes outlined in blue. "She" seems to be an exquisite young girl but turns out to be a boy. "My cousin is a drag queen, and he told me about Harvey Milk," he says. "At my other school, some people didn't know I was a guy; others called me a faggot." He adds, "I used to fight them, and I hit first. At Harvey Milk I can wear what I want." The issue is learning, nothing...
...actors do a capable job with the material they have: Talenti manages to be both wimpering and endearing, and Goldman falls to pieces well, tugging at her hair and fidgeting in her seat as she tries to escape the lunacy around...
When Askins speaks, the setting can resemble an old-style western movie, several scenes before the shoot-out. She has blue eyes and long brown hair, and her manner is that of the pretty, courageous schoolmarm standing up for truth and decency in words the fearful townspeople would just as soon not hear. Yes, she says, wolves get their living by killing. No, they are not sweet and docile. Yes, stockmen are having a hard time economically. "But if we can't preserve wildness in Yellowstone, where can we preserve...