mustache
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Curry was the playfully crooked Rooster Hannigan, and had a standout scene singing and dancing in a pencil mustache and slicked back hair to “Easy Street,” alongside Carol Burnett and Bernadette Peters.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Fishman also says Cusack’s greased-back hair and pencil mustache were partly inspired by Eric Roberts in “Star 80.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
“Here is this meager little mustache that someone made me, and I glue it on every night,” he says, holding up two tiny hairy wings.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
Yet in the modern era, no American president has gone about in mustache or beard.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 3, 2026
He was trying desperately to cultivate a mustache on his upper lip and had filled in the empty areas with what looked like brown shoe polish.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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In something of an irony, Lotus’s historic approach to cornering and traction management—crossed up, tail out, mustaches ablaze—looks a lot like what the kids call drifting.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 25, 2026
Of course, there is something absurd about celebrity chefs needing fake mustaches, prosthetics or entire undercover personas to determine that a restaurant is poorly run.
From Salon ● Jul. 5, 2026
Meanwhile, one end of the observation car had been filled by several women in white bonnets, joined by men with straw hats, footlong beards and no mustaches.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 9, 2025
Some of the women donned fake mustaches that mimicked Rome’s as they all toyed with possible explanations for what they had found.
From Science Magazine ● Jun. 6, 2024
Masterji Thakur put his face beside the portrait of Louis Villarreal to compare twitching mustaches.
From "The Marvellers" by Dhonielle Clayton
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