Oneonta High School - Tomahawk Yearbook (Oneonta, AL)

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Beauty Is Only Skin Deep When entering a room or being intro- duced to someone, appearance is mainly responsible for that ' first im- pression ' which so many people con- sider all-revealing. Unfortunately, it has also been stated as the one asset that can shoot you to the top or plunge you to the bottom. Physical appearance has become a national obsession. During the last five years, millions upon millions of dollars have been spent annually by people between the ages of thirteen and eigh- teen to purchase clothes, cosmetics, grooming items, and anything else that will add that little, yet so important, oomph to their looks. For many teenagers, today, appear- ances haven ' t become just a piece to the puzzle of personal improvement, they have become the only piece. The old adage ' you can ' t judge a book by its cover ' could be effectively applied to this epidemic. Sound like a bad case of vanity or egotis? Maybe so, but most teenagers who induldge in self- renovation tend to think of it as a healthy interest in personal improve- ment. Brushing, combing, blow-drying, scrubbing, and primping ourselves into delirium — the interest teenagers take in their appearance will continue, but teens must realize, as should everyone, that inner self-improvement is more im- portant than outer self-improvement. After all, it is the person on the inside, not the cover on the outside, that is really important. PAGE 30, TOP LEFT. IT IS A fact, demon- strates Jane Sawyer, ttiat mascara can be more easily applied if you fiold your mouth open. PAGE 30, TOP RIGHT. IN A CLASSIC posi- tion, Misti Holleman, Paige Tidwell, and Sfierri Huilett show off their beauty. PAGE 30, BOT- TOM. TALKING ON THE phone and painting her fingernails at the same time comes easy to Lisa Garner, as it would for most teenage girls. THIS PAGE, TOP. GROWING UP SOMETIMES seems difficult, but Sharon Daily will soon realize that beauty does not always mean looking like Cheryl Tiegs BOTTOM. THERE GO THOSE beautiful locks! Jesse Buse says it is too late to stop the barber now. Beauty, Only Skin Deep 31

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STORY OF THE YEAR ASSASSIK] The biggest news story of 1981 was assassination — the attempts on the lives of the U.S. President and the Pope and the murder of Anwar Sadat. On March 30 Ronald Reagan was struck by a would-be assassin ' s bullet a split second before Associated Press photographer Ron Edmonds took this picture of the President outside Wash- ington ' s Hilton Hotel. Six weeks later a second gunman shot Pope John Paul II as the pontiff was holding a mass audi- ence in St. Peter ' s Square. And the world ' s sense of shock and indignation was compounded in October when fa- natic f uslim machine gunners slaugh- tered Egypt ' s Anwar Sadat and seven others as they watched a military pa- rade in Cairo. None of the last dec- ade ' s bombings, kidnappings, hijack- ings and murders by nihilistic political activists made terrorism seem more commonplace, inescapable — and frightening — than these attacks on heads of state and church. (The diffi- culty of protecting public figures was further dramatized by a London exhibi- tionist who in June fired six blank shots at Queen Elizabeth to show how easily he could have killed her.) The attempts on the lives of the President and the Pope seemed chillingly inane. Rea- gan ' s attacker — the son of prosper- ous, churchgoining parents — hoped to impress a young motion picture ac- tress he had become smitten with from afar. The Turkish criminal who shot the Pope announced, with mudd led satis- faction, that he had struck a blow at the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Sadat ' s death, for millions, was the most dis- heartening event of all. His murderers were revealed as anti-Westernization rebels, activists in a movement that seethes in the Arab world. REAGAN ,«i. PRESIDENT REAGAN WAS shot an instant before ttiis picture was taken but l e did not realize he was wounded until ttie mustached Secret Service man (left) and the agent at his shoulder had shoved him into his car and ordered it driven hurriedly beyond range of the gunman ' s .22 pistol. 32 Student Life