Possible Clues:

• Rise and fall repeatedly
• Hairstyle
• He and Marcia were Young, Gifted And Black
• Try to retrieve an apple
• Go up and down, as in the water
• Rise and fall
• Either way, he might get cut short
• With the help of thin gum, a this could be the whatsit
• ''Veil'' author Woodward
• Move up and down like Robert