She wore her hair with soft waves and pulled to one side in the manner of old Hollywood actresses, which also turned out to be the preferred hairstyle of the evening.

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And with age, hair becomes less soft and tends to lose shine.

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Mastro, who has peaked eyebrows and unruly white hair, is soft-spoken, but, even by the pugilistic standards of the New York bar, he has a reputation as a merciless litigator.

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His hair was white and soft, like a professor's or a prophet's.

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Billy has the kind of looks I used to go for a couple of years ago, when I was about fifteen: soulful and soft, with absolutely no hair on his chest.

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She, like Juan, feels an affinity with the colours of her adopted homeland: Isabelle's hair is gathered round her face in soft, red curls and she jokes that her scalp has soaked up the shades of the soil.

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Nozad has the peppered-hair look of one of the money guys, but in his soft blue blazer, adorned with a pastel paisley pocket square, he buoyantly bridges both groups.

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One unhappy shareholder was conspicuously absent: Paul Orfalea, the soft-spoken, self-deprecating founder of Kinko's, whose curly hair was the source of the company name.

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