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...emotions have been dried up to such a point that maybe we Sarajevans are really doing the world an injustice, a world that thinks victory over the forces of evil has finally come to pass, a world that believes there is true reason for rejoicing. At Muhammad the barber's, in "the street where the President no longer lives," as the barber likes to advertise, I encountered a strange atmosphere. Totally oblivious, like in the old days, people were talking about a soccer game broadcast from Germany, and then about whether or not some idiots from a pirate radio station...
Muhammad the barber went on and on about the best thing to do with the pile of wood he had gathered from digging up tree stumps all last summer: now there was gas, and it wasn't even that cold, so he had all this extra wood on the terrace. Should he sell it, or save it for next year? "Next winter everything will be back to normal, the occupiers are on the way out, it's all signed, and peace is coming," I said, half seriously and half in jest. Everyone stared at me, and a young soldier...
...they are boy toys with cute, catchy names like . . . Madonna. NdegeOcello spent two years trying to interest record companies in her iconoclastic music, a shotgun marriage of funk, jazz, hip-hop and angry poetry that she calls "brokenhearted revolutionary love songs." Finally, in despair and ready to enroll in barber school, she got a phone call, and a record deal, rom the head of Maverick, who happens to be . . . Madonna...
...real, many were jolted out of their denial. "I used to figure that if you have a life-span of 70 years, you'll have to go through one really bad one -- three minutes of absolute hell and then a few months thereafter of cleanup and inconvenience," says John Barber, a businessman originally from Connecticut. "Given the benefits -- the business opportunities, the weather, the life-style -- I used to think, 'That's a fair bargain.' Now I'm not so sure." Others feel helpless. "If they say my house can't be saved," said political consultant Jill Banks-Barad, whose...
...contrast, Wrestling Ernest Hemingway takes place in hot, muggy Miami. The old gentlemen here are Richard Harris as Frank, a sometime seafarer who once brawled with Papa, and Robert Duvall as Walt, a fastidious Cuban barber, now retired. Harris has fun overacting, Duvall has fun underacting, but nobody has any fun with the opposite sex. Frank has a snappish relationship with his landlady, played by Shirley MacLaine, and is too raffish for Piper Laurie, who is excellent as a dignified lady he meets at senior-citizen matinees. Meanwhile Walt moons over a young waitress (Sandra Bullock). Also written...