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Hair Apparent
Beauty seeped into politics this year, as it has done with increasing intensity since the 1960 Nixon/Kennedy debate, the first to be televised, put the issue of candidates' looks front and center. Howard Dean's contorted, red-faced howl (dubbed his "I Have a Scream" speech) essentially sank his candidacy. Teresa Heinz Kerry talked about her Botox injections but denied rumors that her husband had them, too. "Have you looked at him?" a Kerry spokeswoman asked a reporter, by way of rebuttal. Journalists chronicled the "babe battle" between Kerry's daughters and the Bush twins. At the first joint Kerry/Edwards campaign stop, Senator Kerry declared: "We've got better vision, better ideas and we've got better hair." CNN dubbed the duo's early appearances "The Better Hair Tour," and news outlets fairly salivated in their descriptions of Edwards's megawatt smile and rich, "chocolate brown" mop, as well as the adorable blondness of his younger children. The Washington Post cut to the chase: "All of this talk about who has the bigger, thicker, better hair is simply a coy way of ...