Word: haired
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...editor Norman Cousins' prescription that laughter is the best medicine. Atwater has watched videotapes of the Three Stooges and W.C. Fields' film Never Give a Sucker an Even Break. Black humor also helps: he presented some friends with copies of his new album and a souvenir tuft of his hair, which has been falling out from radiation treatments...
...soon realized that these men's comments were not judgments of my beauty. They didn't really look at me; they just saw that I was a woman. I had long hair, and that was enough. I began to feel angry, but not yet scared...
...last straw--what made my blood boil, my hair stand on end, and what spurred me to take a firm, no-nonsense stand--was hearing the Japanese suggest that it is our fault that a trade deficit exists, our fault that the quality of American goods has fallen, and our fault that we're no longer the foremost economic power in the world...
MEANS OF ASCENT by Robert A. Caro (Knopf; $24.95). This second volume of an extended biography of Lyndon Baines Johnson offers a hair-raising, white- knuckle ride through the 1940s, when its hero-villain clawed, scrambled and cheated his way toward the political mountaintop...
...small, wiry man with wispy hair, a fringe of white beard and seemingly inexhaustible energy, Cronyn is the organizer and designated worrier in the family, the one who moves them from place to place. "When we like to be rude, we call Hume 'the Cruise Director,' " says Cooper. "Because if you're not careful, he will plan your whole day for you. He sometimes frets a bit too much, but Jessica is used to it, and I think she enjoys it. He's the one who has always made things work in their lives...