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...Eugene McCarthy's courage. McCarthy, the sardonic Minnesota Senator who wrote poetry and loved to work the contrarian vein, challenged L.B.J. as far back as November 1967. The McCarthy campaign, which seemed a quixotic gesture, swiftly picked up thousands of young volunteers. Long-haired students went to the barber and put on neckties ("Clean for Gene") and fanned out across New Hampshire, the first primary state, canvassing door to door, building a grass-roots movement...
...vending machines in the houses. We fought untidyness with comb dispensers, scurvy with Vitamin C dispensers, acne with Clearasil dispensers. We hired nurses to stand ready at all houses 24 hours a day, ready to fit women with diaphragms in an emergency. Next to the nurse was stationed a barber ready at all times to sell emergency haircuts to anyone who was unable to make it to the Square...
State police Lt. Joseph Barber said Saturday that authorities considered it likely that Therrien had obtained a weapon...
Sweeney hopes to exact his revenge on Turpin and his henchman, Beadle Bamford (Wayne Johnson), by luring them to his barber chair, then slitting their throats. In fact, he decides to kill everyone, rich or poor, who sits in his chair--the rich because they are evil and the poor because they are miserable. Mrs. Lovett thinks this is a fine plan, since the pie business has been slow, and meat is scarce... Karl Marx, meet the Leatherface family...
...story of an embittered, vengeful killer whose philosophy is "we all deserve to die." But if such a character can be engaging, then Tolins' Sweeney is engaging. Edwards' Mrs. Lovett is hilarious, as are Johnson's lascivious, foppish beadle and Arthur Fuscaldo's Pirelli, a mountebank rival barber. Wolman's judge is surprisingly sympathetic, and Michael Starr is strong as Tobias, Mrs. Lovett's fiercely devoted young shill...