flaxen-haired

“We were very, very much in love,” Joy, now a flaxen-haired 72-year-old grandmother, told me recently.

You would think that a society that was fine with depicting the Middle Eastern Jew Jesus of Nazareth as a flaxen-haired white European would be a little more flexible.

As a flaxen-haired former actress, Ms. Rieger often appeared on lists of Washington’s most attractive local celebrities.

But there are others, such as “Outdaughtered,” which follows a Texas couple with six daughters, including a set of quintuplets; and “Welcome to Plathville,” about a Duggar-esque conservative Christian family in rural Georgia with nine flaxen-haired, home-schooled children.

Shay muses to the flaxen-haired novelty sitting beside him, in a recording of his Philadelphia radio show “Folklore” included in the collection.