Word: cowlick
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...presidential race in 1988, one can only trust that the voters will pick the man with the best hairdo. Certainly their past record is no source of shame. Except for a brief period from 1977 to 1980, no U.S. president has ever been seen in public wearing a cowlick; not only is this a source of pride, but a claim which no European or Communist country could truthfully make...
...young man in a purple and gold varsity jacket was dangling a silver coin strung on a thread of elastic He was tall, with an open face and blue eyes and reddish blond hair that was all cowlick and no style, and Clare recognized him at once. Everyone at school recognized him. Once when Clare dropped her wallet while she was trying to open her locker, he'd leaned down and picked it up... "You dropped your wallet," he said. She was too flustered to say thank you. She managed a quick nod of her head and he disappeared down...
...floor after a film has been shot. Albert Finney, 44 (Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express), got the worst over with first. For his role as Multi-millionaire Daddy Warbucks in the film Annie, directed by veteran John Huston, Finney had his sandy hair shorn, lock, shock and cowlick. Said he afterward: "I've heard that the first thing a woman notices about a man is his hair." Finney, who will get $1 million for five months of shooting, need not worry about such a hairbrained notion for long. Once the film is finished, his hair, like...