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  • “Yesterday you saw who was really an emo emo, who showed up,” says Aldo, a wispy-haired sixteen-year-old.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • “Yesterday you saw who was really an emo emo, who showed up,” says Aldo, a wispy-haired sixteen-year-old.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • “Yesterday you saw who was really an emo emo, who showed up,” says Aldo, a wispy-haired sixteen-year-old.

    Down and Delirious in Mexico City Daniel Hernandez 2011

  • The Mississippi-bred, wispy-haired Dudley has been paraded through the Gulf Coast, the White House and press corps as the new face of BP's fight to contain the damage the oil spill has unleashed on U.S. shores -- and the company's reputation.

    Bob Dudley is BP's new oil-spill point man on gulf's troubled shores 2010

  • This week the Mississippi-bred, wispy-haired Dudley has been paraded through the Gulf coast, the White House and press corps as the new face of BP's fight to contain the damage the oil spill has unleashed on U.S. shores -- and the company's reputation.

    BP's point man tries to polish tarnished image 2010

  • They're usually an old-looking wispy-haired white male in a robe, spouting seemingly meaningless phrases that nonetheless turn out to be strangely insightful and useful.

    Snell-Pym » Intelligence, Knowledge, Wisdom 2010

  • The Mississippi-bred, wispy-haired Dudley has been paraded through the Gulf Coast, the White House and press corps as the new face of BP's fight to contain the damage the oil spill has unleashed on U.S. shores -- and the company's reputation.

    Bob Dudley is BP's new oil-spill point man on gulf's troubled shores 2010

  • Vanessa whipped out a black-and-white photo of a wispy-haired baby in a onesie.

    Georgia’s Kitchen Jenny Nelson 2010

  • Arnold Schwarzenegger (the two made an odd couple — the tanned, coifed, buff movie warrior and the pale, wispy-haired real one).

    What These Eyes Have Seen 2008

  • The flower, the ruined house behind us, the two wispy-haired children staring at us from a mud-flat across the river, everything receded.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

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