Dyeing on the Job (Oct26)

Pompeo in the pic in Pyongyang fresh from a haircut and style on the plane jetting across. There was enough on top to comb over comfortably in this instance, without the state-of-art glue & threading of his Commander-in-Chief. The NK counterpart on the other hand appeared to have matched his colour with his favourite natty, blue suit. Where Mike received high marks too is for the canny dye—a foxy light ash that leaves some of the grey-white at the lower edges & side-burns. (Pins and clasps deployed.) Meanwhile, whatever critics might say of the political shenanigans here, the manipulation, trickery & hounding of opponents, the chief on the Tropical island with pretensions to a Venetian inheritance does eschew colour. (The cut & styling might not be former First Lady of Malaysia, Rosmah Mansour’s $450 a go—which had included dyeing—but certainly accomplished.)

NB. A former federal opposition leader in Australia, when he was found dead in a hotel room after a tryst with a call-girl, attracted a headline in the Truth newspaper of the time: Billy Dies on the Job. Altogether different kettle of fish.