Peek-A-Boo

I've noticed that some of the pretty women delivering cable news are wearing their hair so that it partly covers one eye. It's like the Veronica Lake hairdo of World War II. (She was a small actress who starred in films in the forties, particularly in THIS GUN FOR HIRE. Goddard copied the death scene from THIS GUN FOR HIRE in BREATHLESS, and Bruce Springsteen wrote a song. . . .)

The government asked Lake to change her hairdo, because women were riveting things in defense plants and needed two good eyes for depth perception.

Anyway, what is this hairstyle about? Is it about making the ladies look half blind and helpless and in need of princes to ride up and save them? Come on. To get where they are, the lovely newsreaders on TV must have the vision of eagles, who can spot a fish in the water from sixty storeys up.