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  • He looked like a young Frank Sinatra, wavy-haired and slim as the cigarette he held between two fingers, only occasionally bringing it to his lips to take a drag—as if he had a hundred more cigarettes at his disposal and could afford to let this one burn out, or not, at his leisure.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • A mustachioed man in a pullover meets a wavy-haired blonde to produce a figure with an oddly raffish cavalier look; a middle-aged woman with a complex hairdo acquires the aquiline nose of the actor she obscures.

    Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011

  • He looked like a young Frank Sinatra, wavy-haired and slim as the cigarette he held between two fingers, only occasionally bringing it to his lips to take a drag—as if he had a hundred more cigarettes at his disposal and could afford to let this one burn out, or not, at his leisure.

    The Dark Side of Innocence Terri Cheney 2011

  • Then there is Ida, the wavy-haired daughter of an Irish seaman and a Chinese dancing girl who in the 1940s became the concubine of a Shan chieftain.

    The New Roads Of Mandalay Emma Larkin 2011

  • "My daughter's first haircut," read the note under the photo of a smiling, wavy-haired Mr. Fannin taking scissors to a young girl's locks in 1987.

    Salon Was Place of Beauty for Community Tamara Audi 2011

  • A skinny, wavy-haired detective in his mid-thirties, a cheap grey suit, and what looked like a GAA tie groaned loudly, and got a poke in the back from Hanlon, sitting behind him.

    The Priest Gerard O’Donovan 2011

  • More on Twitter Follow Jason Gay on Twitter at twitter. com/wsjcouch But that remarkable run ended Sunday afternoon on a balmy day in British Columbia, when Canada's wavy-haired superphenom Sidney Crosby zipped a puck past U.S. goalie Ryan Miller to give Canada the win.

    Whoa, Canada, That Was a Heckuva Game Jason Gay 2010

  • She cut bangs and straightened her tresses...looking quite different from her usual, wavy-haired self.

    Taylor Swift AMA 2010 Haircut: 'Do Or Don't? (PHOTOS, POLL) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • She cut bangs and straightened her tresses...looking quite different from her usual, wavy-haired self.

    Taylor Swift AMA 2010 Haircut: 'Do Or Don't? (PHOTOS, POLL) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • More on Twitter Follow Jason Gay on Twitter at twitter. com/wsjcouch But that remarkable run ended Sunday afternoon on a balmy day in British Columbia, when Canada's wavy-haired superphenom Sidney Crosby zipped a puck past U.S. goalie Ryan Miller to give Canada the win.

    Whoa, Canada, That Was a Heckuva Game Jason Gay 2010

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