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...unisex barber shop-think of Steel Magnolias crossed with The Mousetrap-this interactive comedy is one of the best-kept successes in show business. In 1980 Shear Madness was capitalized at $60,000. Since then it has grossed $54 million while playing to 3.8 million people in 23,000 performances in the U.S. (St. Louis, Philadelphia and Austin as well as the cities mentioned above) and around the world (Montreal, Tel Aviv, Melbourne, Barcelona, Buenos Aires, Budapest)-but never in New York City, the titular capital of live theater. Many audience members are repeaters, genial cultists; they come back bringing...
...wanting to be outdone by Goetze, the trackster's class of 1996 also got into the act. Williams anchored the 4x400 and took first in the 200 (25.32) and 400 meter (56.97) dashes. McLennan outdid her opponents in the triple (11.39 meters) and the long jump, and Stacey Barber (5'6") placed first in the high jump...
Milton Pitts, barber to the past four Republican Presidents, died last week at 84 and left unanswered a titillating question he himself raised. Would U.S. history have been different if Democrats Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton had not haughtily tossed him out of his tiny White House shop and turned to politically naive hair stylists? Pitts, who believed hair had become a crucial image factor, thought so. A few students of presidential esoterica have had sympathy for the ideas of this jolly tradesman, who through skill and nerve climbed higher in the power circle than any other barber in history...
...PRESIDENCY: The Barber's Tale...
Matthew L. Bruce '96 says he reads these magazines at the barber shop while he's waiting to get his hair cut. "If I've already seen the Sports Illustrated, sometimes I'll look at Seventeen," he says...