Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow  Somewhere in all the historic hairdo
magazines is that one article that will remind Ethel Gomez how
to build a beehive. Here, under the candy dish? There, by the
invoice for the faux Titanic jewelry sitting in the display case
next to the Kewpie dolls that double as air fresheners? Or in
that stack of papers resting precariously on the burnt-orange
vinyl hair-dryer chair?  Oh, who knows. And who needs
instructions, anyway? "Oooh, girl," Ethel says, encouraging
herself. "I haven't forgotten how to do this big back-combing
thing. Not at all. And when you get tired of that, you can wear
your hair in this Seventies gypsy shag. I used to love that
gypsy shag. Very nice. I can do these hairdos, girl. I am stuck
in time!"  But in fact, Ethel is just as adept at creating the
thoroughly modern "look at that--they don't even comb it"
hairdos of today as she is with the giant ratted towers of the
late Fifties that she's been doing ever since she graduated from
the Bon Ton Beauty School in 1956