Word: haired
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Tiffany Whitton certainly knows how to get on FM’s good side: “FM is the one newspaper that I read,” she asserts. Sincerely, of course. Whitton has an air of sincerity about her, with California-girl freckles and strawberry-blonde hair, she hails from what she calls a “conservative, Orange County family.” But underneath her unassuming demeanor lies an athletic powerhouse. “She is one of the most talented softball players in Harvard history,” says head coach Jenny Allard. Whitton...
...food and a desire to meet America’s real ambassador can just waltz right into one of his six restaurants. Cast in larger-than-life statutes, Ronald sits in the lotus position atop four of Lahore’s six McDonald’s. With his bushy hair and red combat boots, the enormous clown confidently greets all those below...
Every once in a while, Shania Twain will munch on a carrot stick, whip her curly hair over her shoulder and issue a modest decree. It is worth paying attention to these pronouncements, even though Twain, who is Canadian and thus constitutionally averse to star trips, never quite means what she says. On a brisk October night, with the bleat of Paris traffic in her ears, the Twain fiat is this: she is going to stop singing in public. "I never burned to perform, and I don't care if I ever perform again," she says. "I have no need...
DIED. GEORGE BARRIE, 90, artistic former owner and CEO of Faberge who pioneered the use of celebrities in marketing, famously employing Joe Namath, Farrah Fawcett and Margaux Hemingway to promote perfume and hair-care products; in Aventura, Fla. He created the best-selling scent Brut and also co-wrote songs with Sammy Cahn, two of which were nominated for Academy Awards...
...rein in his biting prose. "This is primarily a fund-raising exercise." Bryson will donate all proceeds from the book to charity. African Diary is unlike any of Bryson's previous work in both subject matter and tone, but it is still sprinkled with amusing anecdotes. There's a hair-raising encounter on a terrifyingly unstable train to Mombasa - dubbed the Lunatic Express by locals - and a storm-buffeted flight over Nairobi in a prop plane. The pilot, Bryson writes, "was bobbing about ... like someone ... being attacked by fire ants." The best travel writing, Bryson says, "makes people interested...