wig
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And one can only hope there was a wig wall somewhere inspired by Catherine O’Hara’s Moira Rose.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
She dons makeup, a wig, high heels and a pseudonym.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 6, 2026
Kusama, instantly recognisable in her bright red wig and bold spotted outfits, worked well into old age from the psychiatric hospital in Tokyo where she lived voluntarily for the second half of her life.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
"I may wear a wig if I'm dressing up, but usually I don't, and I get so many lovely compliments."
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
“Is it the same as how my nana keeps her head covered with a wig or a big scarf? She’s Orthodox. Is it like that?”
From "Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story" by Nora Raleigh Baskin
To market herself, Kusama adopted an outlandish persona, donning brightly colored bobbed wigs, and red leotards or dot-covered gowns for public appearances.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
With funnel cakes in the shape of her beloved butterfly and fashion exhibits with eye-popping heels and wigs, Dolly Parton’s theme park has history, entertainment, reverence.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 26, 2026
Unlike her famous wigs, rhinestones and stilettos, it wasn’t something she could, or would, remove.
From Salon ● Aug. 26, 2026
Annual bilateral trade -- a significant component of which is wigs made in the North -- has reportedly recovered since the pandemic to almost $3 billion.
From Barron's ● Aug. 18, 2026
And you’ll see black women wearing these green and pink and purple and red and platinum-blonde wigs.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
“I think it wigged me out subconsciously,” he recalled.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 22, 2026
When you’re going from movie to movie, a lot of times, actors are wigged.
From New York Times ● Oct. 4, 2022
In any case, "Servant" wigged out enough of an audience to scare up a third season, which Apple TV+ announced prior to this week's second season premiere.
From Salon ● Jan. 14, 2021
Wiggly wigged dogs wiggling their dog wigs off their wiggly dog heads to the dismay of their dog wigmakers!
From Slate ● Nov. 4, 2018
She thought I had, which is why she and Sam wigged out.
From "Free Lunch" by Rex Ogle
“I was wigging out about it, and I realized this was not healthy and I needed to take a break from this watch for a few months and detach from the numbers.”
From Salon ● May 2, 2025
In Louis-Dreyfus, who starred opposite James Gandolfini in “Enough Said,” Holofcener has found the ideal collaborator, an actor gloriously adept at wigging out but also capable of conveying vulnerability with a persuasive honesty.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 25, 2023
Miller had two of his touchdowns after halftime, wigging through a hole on an off-tackle run and dashed down the sideline for a 75-yard TD.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 9, 2021
It was once commonplace for studios to use stuntmen in wigs instead of female doubles, a practice known as wigging.
From Reuters ● May 6, 2021
Something in the inspector's eye warns you, so you say "No" reluctantly to the impatient head-stevedore, for you're due for a wigging if this cargo's a waggon short of last voyage's.
From From Chart House to Bush Hut Being the Record of a Sailor's 7 Years in the Queensland Bush by Charles W. L. Bryde
