Word: haired
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...others--especially her godless co-workers. The funniest moments occur in the convalescent home. In perhaps the most outrageous scene of the book, Lila Mae's co-worker Norma "decides," after some sexual difficulties and a break-up with her boyfriend, that she is a lesbian. She cuts her hair, drops her voice a couple of octaves, and conspicuously marches about the home. Another co-worker explains to the naive Lila Mae that Norma has "gone over to the other side...
...favorite old clothes -- trench coats, pajamas, pea coats, letter sweaters. My bride will be a prom queen, maybe in a big, reversible skirt." To get himself in the mood, he runs around Greenwich Village, where he has bought a brownstone, in his father's old camel-hair topcoat...
Aggrieved customers tell of dates who were overaged, overweight, underemployed and sometimes already married. One woman recalled an escort who had "dyed bright-orange hair," while another said she was matched with "a man who had a criminal record." For such bottom-drawer Romeos, Amram allegedly charged anywhere from $1,250 to $20,000, far in excess of New York's $250 price limit on social-referral services. Amram's response: "I never break the law." The attorney general's lawsuit seeks restitution of any overcharges and an end to Amram's matchmaking in New York...
...Rocky never ran into Don King, the Boss Greed of boxing promoters. King's electrified hair stood on end when he realized that Tyson's match with top contender Evander Holyfield, a huge payday slated for June, would now be a fight between two nonchamps. King soon came to his senses. He proposed a Tyson-Douglas rematch, with Holyfield to meet the winner and ageless challenger George Foreman lurking like a threat behind Holyfield. By midweek the boxing commissions had dropped their charade and acknowledged what every viewer knew: Douglas had won the fight. The underdog was the champ...
...Obviously there's something operating to cause somehow a larger fraction of women than men to find a level and stay there, lower down the ladder...We're all tearing out our hair to figure out what...