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In his book Lessons Learned the Hard Way , he presents himself as shorn of his old harshness and grandiosity, as well as of 30 or 40 pounds.
To be buff but shorn of chest hair is to manifest male vanity and the desire for prolonged adolescence--two symptoms of male homosexuality, according to the Standard . The proliferation of pretty boys without chest pelts signals the degree to which gay values have distorted mainstream notions of manliness.
3) Shearing: The upright strands are shorn to a uniform height, which stops the strands from getting tangled up like dreadlocks, a problem that leads to pilling.
An actress named Hilary Swank gives one of the most rapturous performances I've ever seen as the cross-dressing Brandon Teena (a k a Teena Brandon) in Kimberly Peirce's stark and astonishingly beautiful debut feature, Boys Don't Cry . The movie opens with Teena being shorn of her hated female tresses and becoming "Brandon," who swaggers around in tight jeans and leather jackets.
Sequences that once were run together by a studio bent on linearity are now fractured and intercut in accordance with Welles' intentions, and the still-astonishing first shot has been shorn of credits and of the Henry Mancini theme that obscured its cacophonous sound mix.