RE: Duane's question
"The writer describes a Mongolian as having 'a Chicago
gangster's
haircut.' Anybody know just what sort of sartorial splendor
this might
be describing?"
I'm thinking the author meant Slicked-back and oily. In the
movie
*Scarface*, both Paul Muni and George Raft sported this type
of
haircut. In the novel *Little Caesar*, W.R. Burnett devotes
an entire
chapter (albeit a short one), to the title character's
slicking back
and carefully combing his hair. Oily, highly greased hair
was
considered a stereotypically Italian trait, and gangsters
were
generally regarded as beinbg Italian. - Jim Doherty
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