(1) For Cohn, a teddy boy at heart, neither came close to the glamour and speed fix of the rapidly receding “golden age” he wrote about with such dash: Elvis’s “great ducktail plume and lopsided grin”, Phil Spector’s “beautiful noise”, and James Brown, “the outlaw, the Stagger Lee of his time”.
(2) In between the comb-over and the ducktail, between the two follicular spaces representing the modernistic and the atavistic, the fantastical and the nostalgic, there is a third tranche.
(3) "We spent a lot of time in a suburb with tree-lined streets, just hanging out, wasting time," recalls Mondanile, who also plays in his own, slightly more psychedelic side project, Ducktails .
Pompadour
Definition:
(n.) A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by drawing it straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively.
Example Sentences:
(1) His hair, once memorably described as "a bit of an event", soars upwards in a sort of sawn-off pompadour.
(2) He has also made regular forays into blockbuster world: as a dwarf in Snow White and the Huntsman , and a pompadoured, futuristic commentator in The Hunger Games .
(3) 4.15am GMT Hair Over on Paolo's blog there's a running riff about hair (Velasquez, Zardes, Beckerman etc), to which I wish to counter with DeAndre Yedlin and over on the NBC table field side, Kyle Martino balancing his improbably pompadour at gravity-defying heights.