Word: haired
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...flawless picture: the tall, pants-suited woman, attractive in the years before middle age, her hair dyed black, her husky voice speaking well-chosen, mature words. The apartment bright with Florida sun and four children, and comfortable with the acquisitions of tasteful travelers: an inlaid bone chess table from Pakistan, tiny prints from Arabia, a brass samovar from Teheran. She has worked as a nurse and now attends college for a nursing degree; she goes to occasional cocktail parties...
...after work and forced her to return home. During the next month, she often stopped to have coffee with Donna Sue on her way to school, and during that time she got to know Scott Kabran, a former high school musician and poet with shoulder-length red hair...
Garland's brown hair has turned mostly gray since last May, and his weight has dropped from 250 Ibs. to under 200. He has received electroshock therapy to relieve his despondency, but still he sits in court, head bowed, wiping his tears away with pink tissues. He is living at home during the trial, free on his own recognizance. No one fears that Arville Garland will try to escape...
...clarity of the social conflict makes all the little details spring alive. The stylized stark setting puts the barnyard in front of the house, puts the in-laws and the aristocratic lover into a flat beige and gold of costume, complexion, hair-proud wigs. Against them all, Dandin's shaggy authenticity strikes out like a bear baited by spaniels. When at last Dandin finds the house empty at night and locks out his wife, the creaking stock situation leaps up with delight while Dandin exults...
Young, black and ambitious. George E. Johnson applied to a Chicago finance company in 1954 for a $250 loan to make and market a hair-straightening cream. An unimpressed loan officer called the idea "ridiculous" and turned him down. A few days later, Johnson breezed into another branch of the same company, said he wanted the money for a California vacation-and got it on the spot. With that saucy subterfuge, and an additional $250 from a friend, Johnson started what is today the country's largest publicly held, black-run manufacturing firm: Johnson Products Co., whose annual sales...